Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Behavior of BUG() [Was: Re: [PATCH 2/5] of/fdt: add kernel command line option for dtb_compat string] | From | Matt Mackall <> | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:07:23 -0600 |
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On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 22:45 -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > [CC: list reduced as starting a new thread, most on the context > removed as this concern a different issue.] > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM, <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com> > >> [...] > > The kernel needs to complain *loudly* if this occurs because it > > represents a bug. I'm tempted to say use BUG, but that would halt the > > kernel and prevent any possibility of kernel log output. > > [...] > does it ? if CONFIG_BUG is not enabled and the arch has no define for > it, the default does _nothing_:
That's because CONFIG_BUG=N is intended for machines where logging is irrelevant/impossible. You are encouraged to ignore all options under CONFIG_EMBEDDED when trying to have a sensible discussion.
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