Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)

[Rene Herman]

On 06/05/2007 01:09 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> Here a version of the patch that drops the WARN_ONs

And now all that's done, how about yet another random person stepping in and 
suggesting NIL or maybe NIL_PTR instead of ZERO_SIZE_PTR?

I understand the idea is that code need not necesarily care about zero sized 
allocation meaning it won't (generally) need to spell it out but it's still a 
dreadful name... :-(

Rene.
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