linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dyn_array: using %pF instead of print_fn_descriptor

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Date:	Sat, 6 Sep 2008 19:09:44 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dyn_array: using %pF instead of
	print_fn_descriptor_symbol


* Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> >	ptr = __alloc_bootmem_nopanic(total_size, max_align, 0);
> >	if (!ptr)
> >		panic("Can not alloc dyn_alloc\n");
> 
> Why duplicate the panic()?  Just call __alloc_bootmem().

agreed.

> > #ifdef CONFIF_GENERIC_HARDIRQS
> 
> That doesn't appear to have been very well tested?

on non-genirq systems? Most likely. If then most testing they get is 
from cross-build tools. Few if any actual users.

> The code has a few coding-style glitches which checkpatch can detect.

yeah. Yinghai, could you please fix them?

	Ingo
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