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Re: [Project] Managing Available Bandwidth

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Jun 14 06:15:25 1995

From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: urlichs@smurf.noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 09:13:24 +0100 (BST)
Cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <3rkecd$6u4@smurf.noris.de> from "Matthias Urlichs" at Jun 13, 95 06:29:01 pm

> (d) Looking at the aforementioned file myself..: PLEASE, everybody, check
>     whether you get NULL from kmalloc!

GFP_KERNEL kmalloc waits (forever if need be) for the malloc to succeed so
Simon doesn't need to check the result.

Alan


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