From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754950AbZHTQot (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:44:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754940AbZHTQos (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:44:48 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:51298 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754938AbZHTQos (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:44:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:44:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: David Howells 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 In-Reply-To: <6149.1250784391@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20090820104956.29972.92662.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20090820105001.29972.33221.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <6149.1250784391@redhat.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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