Re: [PATCH] ethernet: hnae: add unlikely() to assert()

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Sep 07 2018 - 17:47:06 EST


From: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 20:26:50 +0300

> The assert() condition is likely to be true.

Worse than that is that drivers should not be definiting their own
private "assert()" macro.

I'd rather have that fixed instead. We have tons of standard kernel
facilities that do what they are trying to do here, without overloading
the standard C namespace in this way.