On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:31:56 +0200 Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The linux kernel doesn't have a type safe object allocator a-la new() > in C++ or g_new() in glib. > > Introduce two helpers for this purpose: > > alloc_struct(type, gfp_flags); > > zalloc_struct(type, gfp_flags); whimper. On a practical note, I'm still buried in convert-to-kzalloc patches, and your proposal invites a two-year stream of 10,000 convert-to-alloc_struct patches. So if this goes in (and I can't say I'm terribly excited about the idea) then I think we'd also need a maintainer who is going to handle all the subsequent patches, run a git tree, (a quilt tree would be better, or maybe a git tree with 100 branches), work with all the affected maintainers, make sure there aren't clashes with other people's work and all that blah. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
