On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:02:46PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> I added CONFIG_BUG, and I think the current behavior is correct. As
> you've noticed, we have to evaluate condition, it may have
> side-effects. And if code does:
>
> /* this indicates a driver bug, report and fail gracefully */
> if (WARN_ON(val == NULL))
> return -EFAULT;
That's exactly the sort of use I had in mind :) I'm actually the
one who added the ability to use WARN_ON inside an if clause.
Just as the case of a BUG_ON, a WARN_ON should never occur in
practice, unless there is a bug which the code is not aware of.
As such we want it to go away completely if CONFIG_BUG is off.
> ..we surely want it to continue returning -EFAULT, regardless of
> whether we log it, no? What use case did you have in mind?
If you're using it for a scenario which is known to actually
occur, then some other mechanism should be chosen in place of
WARN_ON.
Cheers,
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