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From: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@axxeo.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, matthew@wil.cx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Releasing resources with children
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:49:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200503142249.11107.ioe-lkml@axxeo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050314181108.A4705@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

Russell King wrote:
> The only thing I'd question is whether we really need to BUG_ON() here.
> ISTR Linus' policy for BUG()/BUG_ON() was only if the condition lead
> directly to a filesystem-corrupting bug.

I consider it quite effective to flag interface violations.
Programming by contract anyone? ;-)

Regards

Ingo Oeser


      reply	other threads:[~2005-03-14 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-14 17:49 Matthew Wilcox
2005-03-14 18:11 ` Russell King
2005-03-14 21:49   ` Ingo Oeser [this message]

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