From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: deprecated.rst: Add BUG()-family
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:26:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200320172627.6532fda9@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202003141524.59C619B51A@keescook>
On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 15:29:50 -0700
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> Linus continues to remind[1] people to stop using the BUG()-family of
> functions. We should have this better documented (even if checkpatch.pl
> has been warning[2] since 2015), so add more details to deprecated.rst,
> as a distinct place to point people to for guidance.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whDHsbK3HTOpTF=ue_o04onRwTEaK_ZoJp_fjbqq4+=Jw@mail.gmail.com/
> [2] https://git.kernel.org/linus/9d3e3c705eb395528fd8f17208c87581b134da48
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> ---
> Documentation/process/deprecated.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
Applied, thanks.
jon
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2020-03-14 22:29 [PATCH] docs: deprecated.rst: Add BUG()-family Kees Cook
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