(subset) [PATCH v1 0/3] coding-style.rst: document BUG() and WARN() rules

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Wed Oct 5 00:24:21 AEDT 2022


On Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:22:59 +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> As it seems to be rather unclear if/when to use BUG(), BUG_ON(),
> VM_BUG_ON(), WARN_ON_ONCE(), ... let's try to document the result of a
> recent discussion.
> 
> Details can be found in patch #1.
> 
> RFC -> v1:
> * "coding-style.rst: document BUG() and WARN() rules ("do not crash the
>    kernel")"
>  -> Rephrase/extend according to John
>  -> Add some details regarding the use of panic()
> * powerpc/prom_init: drop PROM_BUG()
>  -> Added
> * "checkpatch: warn on usage of VM_BUG_ON() and other BUG variants"
>  -> Warn on more variants
> 
> [...]

Patch 2 applied to powerpc/next.

[2/3] powerpc/prom_init: drop PROM_BUG()
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/c4167aec98524fa4511b3222303a758b532b6009

cheers


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