Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:43:49 -0700 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add nid sanity on alloc_pages_node |
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> Sigh. What crap. I guess we leave it as-is.
That matches my conclusion.
The thought of exposing a bug in some user of this find bit code by tightening up the API to return == N, not >= N, scares poor little old me. I can imagine a nasty bug coming from this
If someone bold enough and strong enough to slay such dragons came along, I'd gladly cheer them along. But such people are a rare breed, and probably have bigger dragons to slay first.
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