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Subject: Re: 2.4.2-pre3 compile error in 6pack.c
To: manfred@colorfullife.com (Manfred Spraul)
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 20:42:21 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), tao@acc.umu.se (David Weinehall),
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> Do you really prefer if drivers contain a 
> 
> static inline void* safe_kmalloc(size, flags)
> {
> 	if(size > LIMIT)
> 		return NULL;
> 	return kmalloc(size, flags);
> }

It isnt that simple. Look at af_unix.c for example. It needs to know the
maximum safe request size to set values up and is prepared to accept
smaller values if that fails

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