I have come to consider BUG_ON generally harmful. The idea of an assert is
to prevent a program to execute past a point where its state is known
erroneous, thus preventing it from dealing more damage to the data
(or hiding the traces of malfunction). The problem is, in kernel this harm
has to be balanced against the harm of forced reboot.
The last straw was our softmac tree, where "iwlist eth1 scan" causes
a lockup. It is absolutely frivolus and provides no advantages a normal
assert has to provide. In fact, doing this impedes debugging.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
tree 385b391fc0d7c124cd0547fdb6183e9a0c333391
parent 97d7a47f76e72bedde7f402785559ed4c7a8e8e8
author James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com> 1124447590 -0500
committer James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com> 1127313735 -0500
Added ieee80211_geo to provide helper functions to drivers for
implementing supported channel maps.
Signed-off-by: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Jörn Engel