All that you are saying is true and stuff that Julia and I have discussed before. For this call site though we are not allocating 32k, we're allocating 4 pointers so libcfs_kvzalloc() doesn't make sense. regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel