On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 04:25 +0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > It's quite sad that this uses GFP_ATOMIC. Because GFP_ATOMIC is quite > unreliable. > > Is it just not possible to use GFP_KERNEL here? I thought of this problem before, but GFP_ATOMIC is required in some cases. > If _any_ of the callers of this function could have used GFP_KERNEL > then we > could at least pass the gfp_t into this function to allow it to use > the > stronger form where it can do so. > That makes sense. I'll send an incremental patch soon. Thanks, Rui - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
