On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 04:27:04PM -0800, Michael Clay wrote:
> This patch is meant to remove the calls to check_region, a now
> deprecated function in order to get rid of compilation warning. This
> was done by finding all calls to check_region and replacing them with
> calls to request_region. check_region essentially was a wrapper around
> request_region, and was checking if the request_region returned a
> pointer or null. As a result, I simply inlined the process of checking
> for null, eliminating the need to call the check_region wrapper.
Yes, but what happens when half the request_region() calls succeed, and
the other half fail?
You cannot simply substitute check_region with request_region.
Jeff
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