linux-kernel - Re: [patch 13/17] Use WARN() in drivers/base/

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Message-ID: <20080711135409.6638498d@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:54:09 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [patch 13/17] Use WARN() in drivers/base/

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:20:11 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 09:53:07 -0700 Arjan van de Ven
> <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.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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