Re: [PATCH] remove PAGE_SIZE from headers_install

[David Miller]

From: "Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:48:57 -0400

> A real constant-value PAGE_SIZE is useful and doable.

It's bogus to use it.  The kernel can get recompiled
to arbitrary page sizes on some architectures, so a constat
page size assumption cannot work.

> It's useful because a getpagesize() can't be used for numerous
> things, such as setting the size of an array.

Use dynamically allocated memory for the array then.

This isn't programming 101.
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