Re: [PATCH] devfs (1/7) - fix compilation

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 09:19:00AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > @@ -1456,8 +1455,8 @@
> >      dev_t devnum = 0, dev = MKDEV(major, minor);
> >      struct devfs_entry *de;
> >  
> > -    if (flags)
> > -	printk(KERN_ERR "%s called with flags != 0, please fix!\n");
> > +    /* we don't accept any flags anymore.  prototype will change soon. */
> > +    BUG_ON(flags);
> 
> PLEASE don't use BUG_ON() except for conditions that you really cannot 
> continue from. It's damn impolite (and it makes debugging impossible) to 
> kill the kernel startup if somebody has a unconverted driver or similar.

Ok.  Is this one better?


diff -Nru a/fs/devfs/base.c b/fs/devfs/base.c
--- a/fs/devfs/base.c	Fri Apr 18 15:56:18 2003
+++ b/fs/devfs/base.c	Fri Apr 18 15:56:18 2003
@@ -1377,7 +1377,6 @@
  *	@uid: The user ID.
  *	@gid: The group ID.
  *	@fs_info: The filesystem info.
- *	@atomic: If TRUE, an atomic allocation is required.
  *
  *	Returns %TRUE if an event was queued and devfsd woken up, else %FALSE.
  */
@@ -1423,7 +1422,7 @@
 static void devfsd_notify (struct devfs_entry *de,unsigned short type)
 {
 	devfsd_notify_de(de, type, de->mode, current->euid,
-			 current->egid, &fs_info, 0);
+			 current->egid, &fs_info);
 } 
 
 
@@ -1456,8 +1455,8 @@
     dev_t devnum = 0, dev = MKDEV(major, minor);
     struct devfs_entry *de;
 
-    if (flags)
-	printk(KERN_ERR "%s called with flags != 0, please fix!\n");
+    /* we don't accept any flags anymore.  prototype will change soon. */
+    WARN_ON(flags);
 
     if (name == NULL)
     {