From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:36:26 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] type safe allocator Message-Id: <20070802113626.634a6bd9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org List-ID: On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:31:56 +0200 Miklos Szeredi 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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org