Re: [PATCH] small sym-2 fix

Gérard Roudier (groudier@free.fr)
Thu, 15 Nov 2001 21:41:16 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

> From: Gérard Roudier <groudier@free.fr>
> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 20:46:34 +0100 (CET)
>
> diff -u ../sym-2-orig/sym_glue.h ./sym_glue.h
> --- ../sym-2-orig/sym_glue.h Thu Nov 15 22:53:34 2001
> +++ ./sym_glue.h Thu Nov 15 23:18:58 2001
> @@ -77,7 +77,6 @@
> #include <linux/errno.h>
> #include <linux/pci.h>
> #include <linux/string.h>
> -#include <linux/malloc.h>
> #include <linux/mm.h>
> #include <linux/ioport.h>
> #include <linux/time.h>
>
> Hmmm, why not add linux/slab.h? It exists in every Linux kernel tree
> your driver would ever be compiled under.

Just because the driver has its own allocator as you know and thus does
not need this header (it didn't need malloc.h too).

Gérard.

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