Re: [patch] hugetlb: remove dummy definitions of HPAGE_MASK and HPAGE_SIZE

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Nov 21 2011 - 18:43:48 EST


On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:23 PM, David Daney <ddaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ok Linus, for you I would recommend against running this git command on your
> tree:
>
> git grep -E '#define.+BUG\(\);'
>
> It's not like there isn't precedence.

So two wrongs make a right?

I do note that almost all the BUG() ones are in the same broken area:
hugepages. There's something wrong with the development there.

I wish people whose code had stuff like that would take a deep look at it.

Linus
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