documentation: when to BUG(), and when to not BUG()
Provide some basic advice about when to use BUG()/BUG_ON(): never, unless there's really no better option. This matches my understanding of the standard policy ... which seems not to be written down so far, outside of LKML messages that I haven't bookmarked. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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