Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: generalize VM_BUG_ON() macros

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2014, Andrew Morton wrote:

> I can't say I'm a fan of this.  We don't do this sort of thing anywhere
> else in the kernel and passing different types to the same thing in
> different places is unusual and exceptional.  We gain very little from
> this so why bother?

I feel the same. This smells awfully like C++ overloading of functions
etc which I think often confuses the heck out of people.

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