Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status

[Andi Kleen]

> > On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 21:32 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > That said, I don't like the reiser name-number style. If you must do
> > > something like this, mark responsibility by using a named identifier
> > > covering the layer in question instead.
> > > 
> > >         assert("trace_hash-89", is_hashed(foo) != 0);
> > 
> > A human readable message would be nicer. For example, "foo was hashed".
> 
> Indeed.

You can just dump the expression (with #argument). That is what
traditional userspace assert did forever.

It won't help for BUG_ON(a || b || c || d || e) but these
are bad style anyways and should be avoided.

-Andi
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