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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [S390] Use generic bug.
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:56:29 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070305.145629.28789919.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070305224354.GN22630@skybase>

From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 23:43:54 +0100

> +	if (__builtin_constant_p(__ret_warn_on)) {	\
> +		if (__ret_warn_on)			\
> +			__EMIT_BUG(BUGFLAG_WARNING);	\

I see we'll have this construct on powerpc, parisc and now s390.

But if it's going to trigger essentially at compile time, I
think it's much better to BUILD_BUG_ON() in this case instead
of counting on the code path to actually run and the user to
notice and report the kernel log message.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-05 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-05 22:43 Martin Schwidefsky
2007-03-05 22:56 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-03-06 11:59   ` Heiko Carstens
2007-03-06 18:47     ` David Miller

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