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What is the meaning of GFP

Posted Mar 31, 2008 7:43 UTC (Mon) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: What is the meaning of GFP by pr1268
Parent article: Atomic context and kernel API design

Well on Windows you get General Protection Faults, in Linux it must therefore be General Fault
Protection :-)


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