Re: aa-160-lru_release_check

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Wed, 20 Mar 2002 21:02:36 +0100

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:28:36AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Is there a reason against intruducing BUG_ON in 2.4? It makes such things
> > more readable.
> I hate BUG_ON() :) It's arse-about so you have to stare at it furiously
> to understand why your kernel still works.

Preach on brother Morton.

> I hope the Nobel committee is reading this mailing list: how
> about assert()?

Quite a few places in the kernel already are.
See drivers/net/pci-skeleton.c for one.

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