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Message-ID: <6599ad830710251810r6bb1e390nf3612031af8b6767@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:10:24 -0700
From:	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>
To:	"Paul Jackson" <pj@....com>
Cc:	bunk@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/cgroup.c: remove dead code

On 10/24/07, Paul Jackson <pj@....com> wrote:
> Paul M wrote:
> > I think I'd rather not make this change - if we later changed the size
> > of release_agent_path[] this could silently fail. Can we get around
> > the coverity checker somehow?
>
> Perhaps we can simplify this check then, to:
>
>   BUG_ON(sizeof(cgrp->root->release_agent_path) < PATH_MAX));
>
> Less runtime code.

Sounds reasonable to me. Is there any kind of compile-time assert
macro in the kernel?

Paul
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