Re: [patch 2/17] Add a WARN() macro that acts like WARN_ON()+printk

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 09:40:23 -0700 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Add a WARN() macro that acts like WARN_ON(), with the added feature that it
> takes a printk like argument that is printed as part of the warning message.
> 

Apart from a little whitespace tweak, this is identical to what I already had.

> +#define WARN_ONCE(condition, format...)	({			\
> +	static int __warned;					\
> +	int __ret_warn_once = !!(condition);			\
> +								\
> +	if (unlikely(__ret_warn_once))				\
> +		if (WARN(!__warned, format)) 			\
> +			__warned = 1;				\
> +	unlikely(__ret_warn_once);				\
> +})

Except it adds this operation, without describing it at all in the
changelog.

Is this some brainfart, or am I missing something?  I can see some sense in
a WARN_ONCE(format...), but not in a WARN_ONCE() which takes a `condition'
and should be called WARN_ON_ONCE(), which we already have.

As it appears that you didn't add any users of WARN_ONCE(), I shall
delicately step away from this patch.

More care, please?