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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:19:59 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/vt.c: check kmalloc() return value.
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On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 23:27:13 -0800
Amit Choudhary <amit2030@gmail.com> wrote:

> Description: Check the return value of kmalloc() in function con_init(), in file drivers/char/vt.c.

NAK; This occurs at boot and if it fails we are wasting our time
recovering.

Alan