From: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, olof@lixom.net, mingo@elte.hu,
mpm@selenic.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] Introduce __WARN()
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:42:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47811320.3040500@student.ltu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080106091031.420c355d@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:09:44 +0100
> Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> wrote:
>
>
>>>> (btw, wouldn't 'var != 0' actually be the proper semantic instead
>>>> of playing with '!'s?)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> no because var could be a pointer for example...
>>>
>>>
>> You mean because in that case it would be '!= NULL', do you? Sorry,
>> do not see your point here.
>>
>
> my point is that you don't know which one to use..
>
Sorry to be a bother, but why is that relevant? Except semantics, they
are the same, right? So what problem would it be if you send it a
pointer? The '!' uses the same "argument/reason" when given a pointer ;).
> But this isn't new discussion (nor something I'm changing at all); this has come
> up since way back in 2005 :)
> If you feel strongly of changing this, feel free to post a patch; for now I much
> rather leave things as they are right now.
>
Oh o-well, in such case I may come back and do a larger patching
someday. Just though since you were in the neighborhood...
Have a good evening
Richard Knutsson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-06 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-06 3:07 [patch 0/5] enhance WARN_ON series Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06 3:08 ` [patch 1/5] Introduce __WARN() Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06 11:44 ` Richard Knutsson
2008-01-06 15:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06 16:09 ` Richard Knutsson
2008-01-06 17:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06 17:42 ` Richard Knutsson [this message]
2008-01-06 3:09 ` [patch 2/5] move WARN_ON() out of line Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06 19:40 ` Olof Johansson
2008-01-06 3:10 ` [patch 3/5] Add the end-of-trace marker and the module list to WARN_ON() Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06 10:04 ` David Woodhouse
2008-01-07 17:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-06 3:11 ` [patch 4/5] bugh-remove-have_arch_bug--have_arch_warn Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06 3:12 ` [patch 5/5] PowerPC: switch to generic WARN_ON / BUG_ON Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-06 11:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-06 14:46 ` Olof Johansson
2008-01-06 9:26 ` [patch 0/5] enhance WARN_ON series Ingo Molnar
2008-01-06 20:22 ` [PATCH] Add bug/warn marker to generic report_bug() Olof Johansson
2008-01-06 21:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-07 1:22 ` Olof Johansson
2008-01-07 4:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
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