Re: Behavior of BUG() [Was: Re: [PATCH 2/5] of/fdt: add kernelcommand line option for dtb_compat string]

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 22:45 -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> [CC: list reduced as starting a new thread, most on the context
> removed as this concern a different issue.]
> 
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM,  <dirk.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> From: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> [...]
> > The kernel needs to complain *loudly* if this occurs because it
> > represents a bug.  I'm tempted to say use BUG, but that would halt the
> > kernel and prevent any possibility of kernel log output.
> > [...]
> does it ? if CONFIG_BUG is not enabled and the arch has no define for
> it, the default does _nothing_:

That's because CONFIG_BUG=N is intended for machines where logging is
irrelevant/impossible. You are encouraged to ignore all options under
CONFIG_EMBEDDED when trying to have a sensible discussion.

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