I understand the comparison, but I just think it's better if people always keep track of what has been allocated and what has not. I tried so hard to get Markus to stop sending those hundreds of patches where he's like "this function has a sanity check so we can pass pointers that weren't allocated"... It's garbage code. But I understand that other people don't agree. regards, dan carpenter -- 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