linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Use the cut_here() function in AFS, CacheFiles, FS-Cache and RxRPC

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0908200943180.3158@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:44:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Use the cut_here() function in AFS, CacheFiles,
 FS-Cache and RxRPC



On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, David Howells wrote:
>
> What about situations where I want to print quite a lot of information, say
> several lines' worth?

Quite frankly, you shouldn't do that. If your code is so fragile that you 
need a lot of asserts that have small novellas associated with them, just 
don't send that code to me. 

It really is that simple.

		Linus
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