Re: Cosmetic bugs?

ULISES ALONSO CAMARO (ualonso@slabii.eleinf.uv.es)
Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:10:39 +0100 (WEST)


Hi Steve!

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Steve Dodd wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 06:43:36PM +0100, ULISES ALONSO CAMARO wrote:
>
> > kmem_cache_create is called by there is no check in what they return, that
> > is, they do not panic() if they can't create cache entry, wich seems to me
> > wrong
>
> AFAICS,
^ ^ ^ ^

What does this mean?

> there's no way to recover in that situation, so not much point in
> checking the return code. Anything that tries to access the cache ptr will
> oops cleanly and give a backtrace. Hopefully it should be an "almost
> never happens" situation anyway.

yes, that's the reason I say "it's a cosmetic bug", but I think It should
be fixed, there is no good reason not to add that few lines of code

don't you think so?

Regards
Ulisses
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