Re: [PATCH] Fix WARN_ON / WARN_ON_ONCE regression

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 02:52:13PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Herbert had a good-sounding reason for wanting this feature, but afaict he
> hasn't proceeded to use it at this stage.  And he's hiding from us ;)

Well you guys had everything under control so I was happy to stay
behind my rock :)

The original reason for the return value is so you can do

if (WARN_ON(impossible_condition)) {
	attempt_to_continue;
}

instead of 

if (unlikely(impossible_condition)) {
	WARN_ON(1);
	attempt_to_continue;
}

Oh and yes the unlikely does make a difference in a statement
expression.

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