> Programming with assertions (and BUG_ON is a form of that) is > generally a good practice. Almost any book or other source on > good programming practices will agree. Yes, it can be overdone. > But I don't really think that is the case here, since the check is > relatively inexpensive and the consequence should it ever *somehow* > happen could be a something wierd (crash, corruption, etc) w/o any > other indication of what occured.
The problem with BUG_ON is that it kills the whole system. So every time you add a BUG_ON into code, you have to weigh whether the problem you detected is so severe that the right response is to panic. For example, I can see panicking on something fundamental like corrupted page tables. However I would submit that the wireless stack should *never* use BUG_ON -- printing a warning and trying to limp on seems preferable to me. - R. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
