From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [MTD] [RFC] New Solarflare NIC EEPROM/Flash driver (2nd try)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:28:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080115182854.GH22338@lazybastard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080115175731.GF28547@solarflare.com>
On Tue, 15 January 2008 17:57:32 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Jörn Engel wrote:
> <snip>
> > You can replace EFX_ASSERT with BUG_ON (with negated condition)
> > throughout the code. Duplicating existing kernel infrastructure needs a
> > very good reason to be accepted.
> <snip>
>
> Assertions made with EFX_ASSERT() are only checked if EFX_ENABLE_DEBUG
> is set, and we don't really want them to be included in a production
> build. Is there a suitable kernel facility for more paranoid checks
> that will be disabled by default?
Not that I know of. Having this once in a generic form might be useful.
Jörn
--
I've never met a human being who would want to read 17,000 pages of
documentation, and if there was, I'd kill him to get him out of the
gene pool.
-- Joseph Costello
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-15 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-10 18:51 [PATCH] [MTD] [RFC] New Solarflare NIC EEPROM/Flash driver Robert Stonehouse
2008-01-10 20:13 ` Jörn Engel
2008-01-10 23:16 ` Jörn Engel
2008-01-11 12:50 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-01-11 13:24 ` Jörn Engel
2008-01-11 18:55 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-01-11 19:57 ` Jörn Engel
2008-01-13 17:19 ` David Riddoch
2008-01-14 17:04 ` [PATCH] [MTD] [RFC] New Solarflare NIC EEPROM/Flash driver (2nd try) Ben Hutchings
2008-01-15 16:46 ` Jörn Engel
2008-01-15 17:35 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-01-15 17:55 ` Jörn Engel
2008-01-15 17:57 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-01-15 18:28 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
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