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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/16] drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c: use WARN
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 17:35:07 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1211031733330.1955@localhost6.localdomain6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <509545C0.5050000@bfs.de>

> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-03 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-03 10:58 [PATCH 0/16] " Julia Lawall
2012-11-03 10:58 ` [PATCH 1/16] drivers/gpu/drm/drm_cache.c: use WARN_ONCE Julia Lawall
2012-11-03 10:58 ` [PATCH 2/16] fs/hfsplus/bnode.c: use WARN Julia Lawall
2012-11-04 11:49   ` Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2012-11-03 10:58 ` [PATCH 3/16] drivers/md/raid5.c: " Julia Lawall
2012-11-03 10:58 ` [PATCH 4/16] drivers/usb/wusbcore: " Julia Lawall
2012-11-03 10:58 ` [PATCH 5/16] drivers/scsi: " Julia Lawall
2012-11-03 10:58 ` [PATCH 6/16] drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c: " Julia Lawall
2012-11-03 12:40   ` Steve Wise
2012-11-03 10:58 ` [PATCH 7/16] drivers/scsi/gdth.c: " Julia Lawall
2012-11-03 10:58 ` [PATCH 8/16] drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_cm.c: " Julia Lawall
2012-11-03 12:39   ` Steve Wise
2012-11-03 10:58 ` [PATCH 9/16] fs/ext4/indirect.c: " Julia Lawall
2013-02-02  1:07   ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-11-03 10:58 ` [PATCH 10/16] drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c: " Julia Lawall
2012-11-03 11:30   ` walter harms
2012-11-03 14:14     ` Julia Lawall
2012-11-03 16:26       ` walter harms
2012-11-03 16:35         ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2012-11-03 19:43   ` David Miller
2012-11-03 10:58 ` [PATCH 11/16] drivers/misc/kgdbts.c: " Julia Lawall
2012-11-03 12:11   ` walter harms
2012-11-03 14:26     ` [PATCH] drivers/misc/kgdbts.c: remove eprintk Julia Lawall
2012-11-04 19:39       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-04 19:58         ` Julia Lawall
2012-11-04 20:51           ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-04 21:04             ` Julia Lawall
2012-11-05 16:26               ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-05 16:57                 ` Julia Lawall
2012-11-05 20:01                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-11-03 10:58 ` [PATCH 12/16] fs/logfs/gc.c: use WARN Julia Lawall
2012-11-03 10:58 ` [PATCH 13/16] fs/btrfs: " Julia Lawall
2012-11-05 15:38   ` David Sterba
2012-11-03 10:58 ` [PATCH 14/16] drivers/ssb/main.c: " Julia Lawall
2012-11-03 10:58 ` [PATCH 15/16] drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c: " Julia Lawall
2012-11-03 10:58 ` [PATCH 16/16] drivers/infiniband/hw/nes: " Julia Lawall

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