On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 12:08:50PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote: > Several times recently Greg KH has admonished that variants of WARN() > should not be used, because when the panic_on_warn kernel option is set, > their use can lead to a panic. His reasoning was that the majority of > Linux instances (including Android and cloud systems) run with this option > enabled. And therefore a condition leading to a warning will frequently > cause an undesirable panic. > > The "coding-style.rst" document says not to worry about this kernel > option. Update it to provide a more nuanced explanation. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for writing this up: Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
