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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:28:36AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > > Is there a reason against intruducing BUG_ON in 2.4? It makes such things
 > > more readable.
 > I hate BUG_ON() :)  It's arse-about so you have to stare at it furiously
 > to understand why your kernel still works.

 Preach on brother Morton.
 
 > I hope the Nobel committee is reading this mailing list: how
 > about assert()?

 Quite a few places in the kernel already are.
 See drivers/net/pci-skeleton.c for one.

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