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
next prev parent 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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