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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package com.android.tradefed.device;
+
+/**
+ * Thrown when a fatal error has occurred with device, and it should no longer be used for testing.
+ *
+ * This should typically be used when the device is still visible through adb, but it is in some
+ * known-to-be unrecoverable state. Or if an "interesting" exception condition happened, that
+ * requires human inspection while device is in the current state.
+ */
+public class DeviceFatalError extends Exception {
+
+ private static final long serialVersionUID = -7928528651742852301L;
+
+ /**
+ * Creates a {@link DeviceFatalError}.
+ *
+ * @param msg a descriptive error message of the error
+ */
+ public DeviceFatalError(String msg) {
+ super(msg);
+ }
+}