linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kmalloc: Return NULL instead of link failure

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Message-ID: <497F8027.2060809@suse.com>
Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:44:07 -0500
From:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmalloc: Return NULL instead of link failure

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Andrew Morton wrote:
> Strange patch format, but it applied.

Ugh, sorry about that. I forgot to disable the GPG signing. It escapes
- -'s like that.

> I'll punt this patch in the Pekka direction.
> 
> Do you think we should include it in 2.6.28.x?

I think so. It's a corner case, but does fix a build failure.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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