Re: [PATCH] Altix I/O code cleanup

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 04:07:07AM -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Christoph> NULL return not handled again (and the assert is totally
> Christoph> useless)
> 
> ASSERT_ALWAYS checks it, it may not be pretty but it does check it.

No, it's useless.  It's not different at all from just derefencing a
NULL pointer - both get you an oops.

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