On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:18:35AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 05:32:22PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:20:20AM +0100, Roel Kluin wrote:
> > > for instance in a patch I saw this:
> > >
> > > > + if (__blk_end_request(rq, 0, 0))
> > > > + BUG();
> >
> > This one should not be converted to a BUG_ON. We always want to call
> > __blk_end_request(), whether we have CONFIG_BUG or not. This case just
> > wants to test the return value.
>
> It can be converted, the empty BUG_ON() in include/asm-generic/bug.h
> handles it with
>
> #define BUG_ON(condition) do { if (condition) ; } while(0)
Yes, but it gives the wrong impression.
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