[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> and since then (1999), most such panics, if they occurred, have been 
> caused by drivers passing e.g. uninitialized / unvalidated values into 
> kmem_alloc() - and were fixed by fixing the driver bug.

The distinction would be between considering -1 to be a design flaw on
the part of the caller, or part of the input range requiring a valid
response.

> to allow KM_NOSLEEP users graceful recovery ?

I think you might need to back up a bit: who is calling this caller?
And where did the erroneous -1 come from originally?

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