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From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
To: me@felipebalbi.com
Cc: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>,
	Linux-Omap <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
	"K, Ambresh" <ambresh@ti.com>,
	"Cousson, Benoit" <b-cousson@ti.com>,
	Eduardo Valentin <eduardo.valentin@nokia.com>,
	Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>,
	"Premi, Sanjeev" <premi@ti.com>,
	Tero Kristo <tero.kristo@nokia.com>,
	"Gopinath, Thara" <thara@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PM-WIP-OPP][PATCH 1/4] omap3: pm: cpufreq: BUG_ON cleanup
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:42:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iq8sw3uf.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100319175213.GC3836@gandalf> (Felipe Balbi's message of "Fri\, 19 Mar 2010 19\:52\:14 +0200")

Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:46:54AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> IMO, Using BUG* macros usually indicates improper or incomplete error
>> handling rather than a real catastrophic system failure.
>
> on the other hand a kernel oops and system hang will always get
> noted. Rather than a WARN() which simply sits in the log buffer.

Of course, but what I'm trying to avoid is making other people deal
with a BUG inserted by a developer when proper error checking and
recovery is what is really needed.

Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-19 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-18 18:44 [PM-WIP-OPP][PATCH 0/4] few opp layer cleanups Nishanth Menon
2010-03-18 18:44 ` [PM-WIP-OPP][PATCH 1/4] omap3: pm: cpufreq: BUG_ON cleanup Nishanth Menon
2010-03-18 18:44   ` [PM-WIP-OPP][PATCH 2/4] omap: pm: opp: twl: use DIV_ROUND_UP Nishanth Menon
2010-03-18 18:44     ` [PM-WIP-OPP][PATCH 3/4] omap: pm: opp: add ability to store data per opp Nishanth Menon
2010-03-18 18:44       ` [PM-WIP-OPP][PATCH 4/4] omap3: srf: remove hardcoded opp dependency Nishanth Menon
2010-03-19 14:47         ` Felipe Balbi
2010-03-19 15:36           ` Nishanth Menon
2010-03-19 10:14       ` [PM-WIP-OPP][PATCH 3/4] omap: pm: opp: add ability to store data per opp Cousson, Benoit
2010-03-19 14:27         ` Nishanth Menon
2010-03-19 14:43       ` Felipe Balbi
2010-03-19 15:25         ` Nishanth Menon
2010-03-19 17:47           ` Felipe Balbi
2010-03-19 18:10             ` Nishanth Menon
2010-03-21 21:50           ` Cousson, Benoit
2010-03-22 13:29             ` Nishanth Menon
2010-03-22 17:46               ` Cousson, Benoit
2010-03-22 18:25                 ` Nishanth Menon
2010-03-23  5:06                   ` Gopinath, Thara
2010-03-23 13:00                     ` Nishanth Menon
2010-03-23 16:12                       ` Cousson, Benoit
2010-03-23 20:04                         ` Nishanth Menon
2010-03-18 22:49   ` [PM-WIP-OPP][PATCH 1/4] omap3: pm: cpufreq: BUG_ON cleanup Kevin Hilman
2010-03-19 14:21     ` Nishanth Menon
2010-03-19 14:50       ` Felipe Balbi
2010-03-19 17:46       ` Kevin Hilman
2010-03-19 17:52         ` Felipe Balbi
2010-03-19 18:42           ` Kevin Hilman [this message]
2010-03-19 19:56             ` Nishanth Menon
2010-03-19 20:49               ` Kevin Hilman
2010-03-19 21:53                 ` Nishanth Menon

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