> Maybe this topic should be clarified somewhere (e.g. in "CodingStyle")? > On the other hand i always found it obvious that its the callers > responsibility to only pass sane parameters to the called functions... Can you imagine that any more source code places which would benefit from check adjustments because of defensive programming? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html