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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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 14:38:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C98E53B.9020807@mandrakesoft.com> (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>

Andrew Morton wrote:

>I hate BUG_ON() :)  It's arse-about so you have to stare at it furiously
>to understand why your kernel still works.
>
>I hope the Nobel committee is reading this mailing list: how
>about assert()?
>

I vote 'aye'

It's the same thing just in another name.

I would call it kassert or fixup existing places that use 'assert' 
first, though.

    Jeff





  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-20 19:39 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     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-03-20 20:02     ` aa-160-lru_release_check Dave Jones
2002-03-20 20:42     ` aa-160-lru_release_check Robert Love

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