Re: [patch] smaller kernels

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > 
> > I've just readded all asserts which you removed... if you really want to
> > remove any of those, please prove me that they are useless.
> 
> I grepped a year's lkml traffic - nobody is hitting any
> of them...

Anyway, they may catch bugs introduced by new modifications...

> The quotaops.h checks were useless:
> 
> 	if (pointer == NULL)
> 		BUG();
> 	dereference(pointer);
> 
> The others can become calls to out_of_line_bug() if
> you want.

Please do, thanks.