From: "Pekka Enberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:36:46 +0200
> On 3/12/07, Jarek Poplawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, maybe it's less evil to check those NULLs where possible and add > > some WARN_ONs here and there... > > No, it's much better to oops rather than paper over a bug. The caller is going to OOPS in this case if you return after an allocation failure, so there is no improvement after the patch. Multipath-cached just sucks, it was thrown over the wall by IBM Germany then never had any followon maintainence at all, so it will be removed unless someone steps up to seriously maintain and fix that code, and I REALLY MEAN IT. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
