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From: "Pekka J Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: ALSA: Remove subsystem-specific malloc (1/8)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:53:22 +0300
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Pekka J Enberg writes:
> Agreed. I'm wondering if the overflow case should set size to zero and 
> call kmalloc() as well. 

Ehh... obviously not. The overflow case should _always_ fail whereas 
zero-order allocation can do whatever it wants. Sorry for the noise. 

       Pekka