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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>, Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>,
	"linux-parisc" <linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: BUG_ON() cleanup
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:49:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901061149.52015.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231255233.7090.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>

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On Tuesday 06 January 2009 10:20:33 James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 12:57 +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
> > - convert a few "if (xx) BUG();" to BUG_ON(xx)
>
> This is fine
>
> > - remove a few printk()s, as we get a backtrace with BUG_ON() anyway
>
> This is less helpful.  Each of the printks explains why the bug
> triggers.  In theory you can work this out from the BUG_ON line number,
> but *only* if your source files match those of the reporter, which isn't
> the case in an annoyingly large number of bug reports ... speaking as
> someone who seems to get to diagnose large numbers of bugs, it makes my
> life harder.

i think those comments go beyond parisc.  perhaps we should add a 
BUG_ON_ANNOTATED() that includes another printk ?
-mike

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-06 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-06 11:57 [PATCH] parisc: BUG_ON() cleanup Helge Deller
2009-01-06 15:20 ` James Bottomley
2009-01-06 16:09   ` Helge Deller
2009-01-06 16:49   ` Mike Frysinger [this message]

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