* Alexander Holler <hol...@ahsoftware.de> wrote: > > Also note that BUG_ON() will make data corruption _worse_ statistically. > > Why? > > Because most data corruptions are unlikely to be perfectly detected by a > > BUG_ON(), and the BUG_ON() delays the finding of the underlying bug, so the > > bug will hit more people before it's fixed for good. > > > > So even in the cases where you could argue that the system needs to stop, > > because we have evidence of data corruption, it's statistically the better > > approach to continue and get kernel log info back to developers. > > Risking more, maybe even worse problems like corrupting file systems or > similiar > in order to have a slightly chance of save log info?
That's not what I said - please read my argument and argue with that if you want, not with some other straw-man argument... Thanks, Ingo -- 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/