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From: sylvester.nawrocki@gmail•com (Sylwester Nawrocki)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC 2/4] dma: add dmaengine driver for Samsung s3c24xx SoCs
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 23:20:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5193FC08.5040002@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201305152231.52423.heiko@sntech.de>

On 05/15/2013 10:31 PM, Heiko St?bner wrote:
>>> +       BUG();
>> >
>> >  Isn't that a bit nasty. This macro should be used with care and we
>> >  should recover if possible. dev_err()?
>
> runtime_config already denies any settings not in the 1,2 or 4bytes range -
> the default-part should therefore never be reached. So if any other value
> magically appears in the register and triggers the default-part, something is
> seriously wrong. So my guess is, the BUG might be appropriate.
>
> On the other hand the whole default+BUG part could also simply go away, for
> the same reasons.

IMHO BUG() is not needed at all. As Linus suggested dev_err() is such case
or WARN_ON() would be more appropriate. This has been discussed in the past
extensively, not sure if you are aware of the other Linus' opinion on
BUG()/BUG_ON() proliferation: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/27/461

Regards,
Sylwester

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-15 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-11 11:30 [RFC 0/4] ARM: S3C24XX: add dmaengine based dma-driver Heiko Stübner
     [not found] ` <201305111331.25405.heiko@sntech.de>
2013-05-14 12:47   ` [RFC 2/4] dma: add dmaengine driver for Samsung s3c24xx SoCs Linus Walleij
2013-05-14 13:51     ` Heiko Stübner
2013-05-15 18:38       ` Linus Walleij
2013-05-14 14:21     ` Tomasz Figa
2013-05-15 18:53   ` Linus Walleij
2013-05-15 20:31     ` Heiko Stübner
2013-05-15 21:20       ` Sylwester Nawrocki [this message]
2013-05-15 21:48         ` Heiko Stübner
2013-05-15 22:02           ` Tomasz Figa
2013-05-15 22:45             ` Heiko Stübner
2013-05-15 23:26               ` Tomasz Figa
2013-05-17 12:20       ` Linus Walleij

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