Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:54:09 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [patch 13/17] Use WARN() in drivers/base/ |
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:20:11 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 09:53:07 -0700 Arjan van de Ven > <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > > > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>Index: > > linux.trees.git/drivers/base/core.c > > A number of these patches had mangled signed-off-by: lines. > > Please try to be consistent in the presence and placement of the ^--- > line at the end of the changelog. > > I verified that all three copies of "Use WARN() in fs/" were the same. > > I've decided that I don't like the whole thing :( This: > > #define WARN(condition, format...) > ({ \ int __ret_warn_on > = !!(condition); \ if > (unlikely(__ret_warn_on)) \ > __WARN_printf(format); \ > unlikely(__ret_warn_on); \ }) > > is not a WARN(). It is a WARN_ON() function. The use of this name > now leaves us no sensible name under which to implement >
I'm totally open to a better name. Having a condition in there is really nice, it means we can fold the if() into it in many cases. Just like BUG_ON() did.
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