On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 22:45 -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > [CC: list reduced as starting a new thread, most on the context > removed as this concern a different issue.] > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM, <dirk.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> From: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx> > >> [...] > > The kernel needs to complain *loudly* if this occurs because it > > represents a bug. I'm tempted to say use BUG, but that would halt the > > kernel and prevent any possibility of kernel log output. > > [...] > does it ? if CONFIG_BUG is not enabled and the arch has no define for > it, the default does _nothing_: That's because CONFIG_BUG=N is intended for machines where logging is irrelevant/impossible. You are encouraged to ignore all options under CONFIG_EMBEDDED when trying to have a sensible discussion. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html