Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 14:43:59 EST


Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
>
>>Which still leaves the question, does it really make sense for
>>FATAL/BUG to forcibly kill the machine?
>
>
> No. It should only be "locally fatal", and it should clearly just do what
> BUG() does now - kill the process.
>
> But that implies very much that you really cannot use FATAL() in general
> at all, since it would be illegal to use whenever some caller holds some
> non-local locks (which is almost always the case for most "peripheral
> code").

Well we still have panic()... It might be nice to have a PANIC() macro
with a similar form to that of DEBUG/WARN/FATAL...

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