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From: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@axxeo.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Releasing resources with children
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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