On Thu, 17 May 2007 18:37:12 +0400 Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]> wrote:
> [Andrew Morton - Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:44:55AM -0700]
> | On Wed, 16 May 2007 22:12:14 +0400
> | Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]> wrote:
> |
> | > This patch adds checking for allocated memory
> | > which is used to hold AGP info. Also some whitespace
> | > cleanup.
> |
> | The inclusion of all the whitespace fixies makes it rather hard to
> | see what the patch actually does.
> |
> | I'm not sure that I can be bothered with this, really. afaict the
> | checks you're adding are for boot-time allocations which we tend
> | to assume won't fail, and they're kmalloc(small-amount, GFP_KERNEL)
> | which is basically infallible, and it only affects, err, alpha.
> |
>
> So you think we could leave all as is? I mean sould I just drop the patch?
mutter. I spose we should fix those sites which can be called at times other than
system boot. Often one can use the lack of __init annotation to work out if a site
is being called after boot.
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