On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 09:42:45AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> of the VM allocation issues. Returning NULL in kmalloc() is just a way to
> say: 'oops, we screwed up somewhere'. And i'd suggest to not work around
That is not at all how it is currently used in the kernel.
> such screwups by checking for NULL and trying to handle it. I suggest to
> rather fix those screwups.
Kmalloc returns null when there is not enough memory to satisfy the request. What's
wrong with that?
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