KUNIT_ASSERT_NE(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🌈 KUNIT_ASSERT_NE(9) 🌈

hey bestie, welcome to the KUNIT_ASSERT_NE(9) page from the Kernel API Manual. This one is short, sweet, and absolutely ready to check that two things are not equal, fr fr. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

KUNIT_ASSERT_NE — an assertion that @left and @right are not equal. periodt. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

KUNIT_ASSERT_NE (test , left , right );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • test — the test context object. that's the main-character test context, okay? 💅
  • left — an arbitrary expression that evaluates to a primitive C type. no cap.
  • right — an arbitrary expression that evaluates to a primitive C type. same energy, other side. ✨

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the tea: this sets an assertion that the values that left and right evaluate to are not equal. 🫶

It's literally the same as KUNIT_EXPECT_NE, except it causes an assertion failure (see KUNIT_ASSERT_TRUE) when the assertion is not met.

bestie, this one is an assert — when the assertion is not met, it causes an assertion failure via KUNIT_ASSERT_TRUE. that's the whole difference from KUNIT_EXPECT_NE, iykyk. 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./include/kunit/test.h and the whole iconic squad:

that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this iconic little thing lives in ./include/kunit, in the Kernel API Manual, with the KUNIT_ASSERT_NE(9) tag, dated October 2026. mwah 💋

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