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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

      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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