Re: [PATCH 2/25] NTFS: Allow highmem kmalloc() in ntfs_malloc_nofs() and add _nofail() version.

[Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > I completely disagree with you given that this is not "inventing [...]
> > own memory allocators", it is just a convenient short hand.  I am sure a
> > lot of people would agree with you though.  It is just a matter of
> > personal preference.
> 
> I should add that this is not ntfs only, the idea is from another file
> system which uses it, too.  Can't remember which one it was, though (xfs
> maybe?).

Indeed. It is not just a matter of personal preference but also a matter 
of subsystems introducing duplicate code like this. Quick grepping shows 
UDF doing same thing  and XFS doing slightly differently but I am pretty 
sure I've seen it elsewhere too.

				Pekka
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