From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: elendil@planet.nl
Cc: manty@manty.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
bzolnier@gmail.com
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at drivers/ide/ide-disk.c:187 (2.6.31)
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:30:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091001.013030.98262804.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910011026.17510.elendil@planet.nl>
From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:26:14 +0200
> Question for IDE maintainers: should maybe the old printing of request info
> be reinstated, or can the request flags also be obtained from the BUG
> info?
Using a BUG for this doesn't make it any easier to track down the
problem. WARN_ON_ONCE() or similar is much more appropriate here.
BUG() is for situations where the system's state is completely
irrecoverably corrupted, and we cannot continue, and that is not the
case here at all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-01 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-30 11:05 kernel BUG at drivers/ide/ide-disk.c:187 (2.6.31) Santiago Garcia Mantinan
2009-10-01 6:57 ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-01 8:26 ` Frans Pop
2009-10-01 8:30 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-10-01 9:25 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-10-01 16:40 ` David Miller
2009-10-01 18:21 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-10-01 18:34 ` David Miller
2009-10-01 18:52 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-10-01 10:11 ` Santiago Garcia Mantinan
2009-10-01 18:47 ` David Miller
2009-10-01 18:53 ` David Miller
2009-10-03 3:39 ` Santiago Garcia Mantinan
2009-10-04 22:37 ` Santiago Garcia Mantinan
2009-10-05 0:19 ` David Miller
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