Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264609AbUFGNaK (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:30:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264655AbUFGN3V (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:29:21 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:37289 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264609AbUFGN0Q (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:26:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:24:27 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, perex@suse.cz, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [RFC] ASLA design, depth of code review and lack thereof In-Reply-To: <40C107D2.9030301@pobox.com> References: <20040604230819.GR12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <40C107D2.9030301@pobox.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 13) (Rational FORTRAN) (i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 643 Lines: 19 At Fri, 04 Jun 2004 19:37:54 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > While we're bitching about ALSA, can we please kill the > subsystem-specific malloc and "magic cast" wrappers? > This debug machinery is better done elsewhere... Of course we can remove kmalloc/vmalloc wrappers for cast checking once when the kernel core provides a similar debugging mechanism. Do you know any alternative? Takashi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/