From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Starikovskiy Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] acpi: do not use kmem caches Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:49:27 +0300 Message-ID: <493423A7.6050907@gmail.com> References: <20081201083128.GB2529@wotan.suse.de> <84144f020812010318v205579ean57edecf7992ec7ef@mail.gmail.com> <20081201120002.GB10790@wotan.suse.de> <4933E2C3.4020400@gmail.com> <1228138641.14439.18.camel@penberg-laptop> <4933EE8A.2010007@gmail.com> <20081201161404.GE10790@wotan.suse.de> <4934149A.4020604@gmail.com> <20081201172044.GB14074@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]:51975 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751936AbYLARtc (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2008 12:49:32 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 39so2742755ugf.37 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:49:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20081201172044.GB14074@infradead.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Nick Piggin , Pekka Enberg , Linux Memory Management List , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 07:45:14PM +0300, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > >> You would laugh, this is due to Windows userspace debug library -- it >> checks for >> memory leaks by default, and it takes ages to do this. >> And ACPICA maintainer is sitting on Windows, so he _cares_. >> > > So what about getting a non-moronic maintainer instead? Really this > whole ACPI code is a piece of turd exactly because of shit like this. > Can't Intel get their act together and do a proper ACPI implementation > for Linux instead of this junk? > > Or at least stop arguing and throwing bureaucratic stones in the way of > those wanting to sort out this mess. > > Christoph, please, I don't work for Intel :) How long will it take for _you_ to write another ACPICA ? I assume it will be shining diamond? Regards, Alex.