Re: [PATCH] ALPHA: MARVEL - check for allocated memory

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

[Andrew Morton - Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:44:55AM -0700]
| On Wed, 16 May 2007 22:12:14 +0400
| Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> 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?

		Cyrill

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