Re: [PATCH] include/linux/slab.h: new KFREE() macro.

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Sumit Narayan wrote:

> Asking for KFREE is as silly as asking for a macro to check if
> kmalloc succeeded for a pointer, else return ENOMEM.
>
> #define CKMALLOC(p,x) \
>   do {   \
>       p = kmalloc(x, GFP_KERNEL); \
>       if(!p) return -ENOMEM; \
>    } while(0)

oooooooh ... cool.  i'll whip up a patch for that right away.

rday

p.s.  i'm *kidding*, for god's sake.  um ... what are you doing?  and
where did you get that tire iron?  no, wait ...
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