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Date:	Sat, 3 Nov 2012 17:35:07 +0100 (CET)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:	walter harms <wharms@....de>
cc:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/16] drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c: use WARN

> While looking i have noticed that a lot of drivers define there private "assert" macro.
> It is very similar to warn.
>
> (e.g.)
> #define RTL819x_DEBUG
> #ifdef RTL819x_DEBUG
> #define assert(expr) \
>        if (!(expr)) {                                  \
>                 printk( "Assertion failed! %s,%s,%s,line=%d\n", \
>                #expr,__FILE__,__FUNCTION__,__LINE__);          \
>        }

WARN is more complicated.  At least with the right debugging options 
turned on, it dumps the stack, via warn_slowpath_common.

julia
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