On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 10:54 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > It sounds more appropriate to me, instead of silently wedging the box. > At least with that approach we have a chance of finding out what happened.
Its quite the opposite. If bug is still there 6 months after the commits that broke the drivers, (making an old bug visible) that means that people never realized the bug was there. I understand a distro maintainer has its own choices, but for upstream kernel we want to have early reports. This bug is fatal and a security issue. BUG() is appropriate. If the driver cant be fixed, it should be marked broken. So I personally NACKed patch to hide the bug, trying to be friendly to the user. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/