linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] type safe allocator

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Date:	Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:36:26 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] type safe allocator

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:31:56 +0200
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> 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.
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