linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Use BUG_ON(foo) instead of "if (foo) BUG()" in include/asm-i386/dma-mapping.h

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Message-ID: <20060807012030.GA3691@stusta.de>
Date:	Mon, 7 Aug 2006 03:20:30 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>, trivial@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use BUG_ON(foo) instead of "if (foo) BUG()" in include/asm-i386/dma-mapping.h

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:37:04AM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > We have BUG_ON() right for this, don't we?
> > 
> > Well yes, but there are over a thousand BUG->BUG_ON conversion
> > possibilities in the tree.  If people start sending them three-at-a-time
> > we'll all go mad.
> > 
> > So.  If we're going to do this, bigger patches, please.
> 
> If we are going that way... I guess we should specify if BUG_ON() has
> to evaluate its arguments even if it is compiled out...
>...

This is already implemented for ages.

> 							Pavel

cu
Adrian

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