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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Use the cut_here() function in AFS, CacheFiles, FS-Cache and RxRPC
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:44:06 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0908200943180.3158@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6149.1250784391@redhat.com>



On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, David Howells wrote:
>
> What about situations where I want to print quite a lot of information, say
> several lines' worth?

Quite frankly, you shouldn't do that. If your code is so fragile that you 
need a lot of asserts that have small novellas associated with them, just 
don't send that code to me. 

It really is that simple.

		Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-20 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-20 10:49 [PATCH 1/2] Allow the 'cut here' oops line to be displayed before calling BUG() David Howells
2009-08-20 10:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] Use the cut_here() function in AFS, CacheFiles, FS-Cache and RxRPC David Howells
2009-08-20 15:32   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-20 16:06   ` David Howells
2009-08-20 16:44     ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-08-25 11:36 ` [PATCH 1/2] Allow the 'cut here' oops line to be displayed before calling BUG() Pavel Machek

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