Warning about WARN_ON()

Posted Apr 18, 2024 15:17 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
Parent article: Warning about WARN_ON()

Surely the panic_on_warn flag should also apply to dev_warn* and pr_warn* calls?
Or at least they should have their own flags to panic -- for people who really want that?

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Warning about WARN_ON()

Posted Apr 24, 2024 17:01 UTC (Wed) by crystalwood (guest, #168140) [Link] (1 responses)

Why would you want that? Those prints aren't necessarily meant to indicate a kernel fault; e.g. it could be complaining about hardware or firmware, and it might happen on every boot.

Warning about WARN_ON()

Posted May 13, 2024 7:12 UTC (Mon) by cpitrat (subscriber, #116459) [Link]

I think this was sarcastic