Re: [PATCH] slab: Adds missing kmalloc() checks.

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 13:12 -0200, Luiz Fernando Capitulino wrote:
>  Adds two missing kmalloc() checks in kmem_cache_init(). Note that if the
> allocation fails, there is nothing to do, so we panic();

ok so what good does this do? if you die this early.. you are in deeper
problems, and can't boot. while this makes the code bigger...


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