Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:15:11 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>,
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       Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
       Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
       Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>,
       Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
       Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm: remove unlikly NULL from kfree
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On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:10:19 +0000 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> We certainly can add explicit check, but that'll keep asking for
> patches "removing useless check".  The same applies to other places,
> really.

Such patches are easily prevented by commenting the exceptional cases.
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