Re: Fw: [Kernel-janitors] net/atm/clip.c: check kmem_cache_create() #1

[chas williams (contractor) <chas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <20040205193813.A4230@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,Francois Romieu wr
ites:
>As long as the ugly-ifdef patrol does not bite, it's fine with me. :o)

it would less ugly if people could accept a possibly unused stack
variable for the !CONFIG_PROC_FS case.

>It would not hurt. Do you have a specific race in mind before I send
>an update on top your patch for the clip_tbl_hook -> clip_tbl change ?

no particular race.  just that the arp /proc entry should not be available
until clip gets initialized.  clip_tbl_hook should only be used by 
net/ipv4/arp.c really.