From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 In-reply-to: <20070802113626.634a6bd9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (message from Andrew Morton on Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:36:26 -0700) Subject: Re: [PATCH] type safe allocator References: <20070802113626.634a6bd9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:48:26 +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org List-ID: > > 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 No, I gave up. It seems nobody likes the idea except me :( Miklos -- 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