[PATCH] Documentation: coding-style: don't encourage WARN*()

2024-04-14 Thread Alex Elder
. And therefore a condition leading to a warning will frequently cause an undesirable panic. The "coding-style.rst" document says not to worry about this kernel option. Update it to provide a more nuanced explanation. Signed-off-by: Alex Elder --- Documentation/process/coding-styl

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: coding-style: don't encourage WARN*()

2024-04-14 Thread Alex Elder
On 4/14/24 2:48 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote: Hi Alex, Thank you for the patch. On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 12:08:50PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote: Several times recently Greg KH has admonished that variants of WARN() should not be used, because when the panic_on_warn kernel option is set, their use