Re: [GIT] Networking

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

[...]

I'm getting *real* tired of that BUG_ON() shit. I realize that
infiniband is a niche market, and those "commercial grade" niche
markets are more-than-used-to crap code and horrible hacks, but this
is still the kernel. We don't add random machine-killing debug checks
when it is *so* simple to just do

        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(..))
                return -EINVAL;

instead.

Killing the machine for idiotic things like that is truly offensive,
and truly horrible horrible code. Why do I keep on having to tell
people off for doing these things? Why do people keep thinking that
debugging-by-killing-the-machine is a good idea?

Ingo figured this was an educational battle that we'd never win.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/21/490

I tend to agree, as unfortunate as that is.

Paul.
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Either that BUG_ON() cannot possibly happen, in which case it should
damn well not exist in the first place. Or it's a valuable debug aid,
in which case it should damn well not be a BUG_ON. You can't have it
both ways.

The next pointless BUG_ON() I see, I will start getting _really_
unpleasant about.

Doug, get rid of those things asap.

                    Linus
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