From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: aa-160-lru_release_check
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:02:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020320210236.K5094@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C980990.1C6B232A@zip.com.au> <Pine.NEB.4.44.0203201703450.3932-100000@mimas.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de> <3C98E2E4.A42B13D0@zip.com.au>
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:28:36AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Is there a reason against intruducing BUG_ON in 2.4? It makes such things
> > more readable.
> I hate BUG_ON() :) It's arse-about so you have to stare at it furiously
> to understand why your kernel still works.
Preach on brother Morton.
> I hope the Nobel committee is reading this mailing list: how
> about assert()?
Quite a few places in the kernel already are.
See drivers/net/pci-skeleton.c for one.
--
| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-20 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-20 4:01 aa-160-lru_release_check Andrew Morton
2002-03-20 16:09 ` aa-160-lru_release_check Adrian Bunk
2002-03-20 19:16 ` aa-160-lru_release_check Mike Fedyk
2002-03-20 19:28 ` aa-160-lru_release_check Andrew Morton
2002-03-20 19:38 ` aa-160-lru_release_check Jeff Garzik
2002-03-20 20:02 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-03-20 20:42 ` aa-160-lru_release_check Robert Love
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