On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, Tejun Heo wrote: > Until recently, when an negative ID is specified, idr functions used > to ignore the sign bit and proceeded with the operation with the rest > of bits, which is bizarre and error-prone. The behavior recently got > changed so that negative IDs are treated as invalid but we're > triggering WARN_ON_ONCE() on negative IDs just in case somebody was > depending on the sign bit being ignored, so that those can be detected > and fixed easily. > > We only need this for a while. Explain why WARN_ON_ONCE()s are there > and that they can be removed later. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
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