Re: aa-160-lru_release_check

[Robert Love]

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 14:28, Andrew Morton wrote:
 
> I hate BUG_ON() :)  It's arse-about so you have to stare at it furiously
> to understand why your kernel still works.
> 
> I hope the Nobel committee is reading this mailing list: how
> about assert()?

I have a patch that introduces BUG_ON for 2.4.  I like the idea of
BUG_ON and it is certainly a place where the unlikely bit is useful. 
I've posted the patch here before; I was going to do so again against
the next 2.4-pre.

Further, and most importantly, the patch provides compatibility with 2.5
code that uses it.  I have no problems naming BUG_ON anything anyone
wants (Jeff's suggestion of kassert seems sane) but we should then do
the proper renaming in 2.5.

	Robert Love