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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SLAB_PANIC cleanup
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:56:30 -0700
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 01:28:00 -0300
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> wrote:

> Agreed, not because it is "not important", but because panicing at module
> load, even in very rare cases is unnacceptable IMHO.

I think even non-modular cases should fail gracefully.
If the ipv4 one fails, no ipv4 networking sorry. :-)