Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 3 Nov 2012 17:35:07 +0100 (CET) | From | Julia Lawall <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 10/16] drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/mal.c: use WARN |
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> While looking i have noticed that a lot of drivers define there private "assert" macro. > It is very similar to warn. > > (e.g.) > #define RTL819x_DEBUG > #ifdef RTL819x_DEBUG > #define assert(expr) \ > if (!(expr)) { \ > printk( "Assertion failed! %s,%s,%s,line=%d\n", \ > #expr,__FILE__,__FUNCTION__,__LINE__); \ > }
WARN is more complicated. At least with the right debugging options turned on, it dumps the stack, via warn_slowpath_common.
julia
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