Well, in this case (since it's at bootup only), I'd agree with panic(),
but generally I disagree - it's actually much better to have a broken
system limping along and allowing things like syslogd to write the problem
to log-files and generally working as well as possible.
If people can do a "dmesg" and send it out as an email, we're much more
likely to get good bug-reports.
But for early boot, and for something that can't really happen anyway,
panic() sounds fine.
Linus
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