The patch titled pps: use BUG_ON for kernel API safety checks has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is pps-use-bug_on-for-kernel-api-safety-checks.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: pps: use BUG_ON for kernel API safety checks From: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This way less overhead is involved when running production kernel. If you want to debug a pps client module please define DEBUG to enable the checks. Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/pps/kapi.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/pps/kapi.c~pps-use-bug_on-for-kernel-api-safety-checks drivers/pps/kapi.c --- a/drivers/pps/kapi.c~pps-use-bug_on-for-kernel-api-safety-checks +++ a/drivers/pps/kapi.c @@ -166,10 +166,8 @@ void pps_event(struct pps_device *pps, s int captured = 0; struct pps_ktime ts_real; - if ((event & (PPS_CAPTUREASSERT | PPS_CAPTURECLEAR)) == 0) { - dev_err(pps->dev, "unknown event (%x)\n", event); - return; - } + /* check event type */ + BUG_ON((event & (PPS_CAPTUREASSERT | PPS_CAPTURECLEAR)) == 0); dev_dbg(pps->dev, "PPS event at %ld.%09ld\n", ts->ts_real.tv_sec, ts->ts_real.tv_nsec); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from lasaine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are pps-trivial-fixes.patch pps-declare-variables-where-they-are-used-in-switch.patch pps-fix-race-in-pps_fetch-handler.patch pps-unify-timestamp-gathering.patch pps-access-pps-device-by-direct-pointer.patch pps-convert-printk-pr_-to-dev_.patch pps-move-idr-stuff-to-ppsc.patch pps-do-not-disable-interrupts-for-idr-operations.patch pps-use-bug_on-for-kernel-api-safety-checks.patch pps-simplify-conditions-a-bit.patch pps-timestamp-is-always-passed-to-dcd_change.patch ntp-add-hardpps-implementation.patch pps-capture-monotonic_raw-timestamps-as-well.patch pps-add-kernel-consumer-support.patch pps-add-parallel-port-pps-client.patch pps-add-parallel-port-pps-signal-generator.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html