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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Cc: Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com,
	jbarnes@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Altix I/O code cleanup
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:55:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031015135558.A8963@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq0llrmncus.fsf@trained-monkey.org>; from jes@trained-monkey.org on Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 04:07:07AM -0400

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 04:07:07AM -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Christoph> NULL return not handled again (and the assert is totally
> Christoph> useless)
> 
> ASSERT_ALWAYS checks it, it may not be pretty but it does check it.

No, it's useless.  It's not different at all from just derefencing a
NULL pointer - both get you an oops.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-15 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-10 21:49 Patrick Gefre
2003-10-10 21:51 ` Jesse Barnes
2003-10-10 22:50   ` David Mosberger
2003-10-10 23:51     ` Jesse Barnes
2003-10-13  8:58     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-13 10:55       ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-13 14:06         ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-13  8:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-15  8:07   ` Jes Sorensen
2003-10-15 12:55     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-10-16 13:08       ` Jes Sorensen
2003-10-16 16:40         ` Colin Ngam
2003-10-17  8:11           ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-17 13:36             ` Jes Sorensen

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