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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 09:47:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40C471FC.3000802@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hekor4i2c.wl@alsa2.suse.de>

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 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?


CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.  Other stuff should go 
into ALSA developer trees or use of a debugger, not be in mainline 
kernel code.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-07 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-04 23:08 [RFC] ASLA design, depth of code review and lack thereof viro
2004-06-04 23:14 ` viro
2004-06-04 23:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-05  0:04   ` viro
2004-06-07 13:14     ` Takashi Iwai
2004-06-07 22:40       ` viro
2004-06-08 12:49         ` Takashi Iwai
2004-06-07 13:10   ` Takashi Iwai
2004-06-04 23:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-07 13:24   ` Takashi Iwai
2004-06-07 13:47     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-06-07 13:57       ` Takashi Iwai
2004-06-07 14:05         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-07 14:12           ` Takashi Iwai
2004-06-07 14:18         ` Russell King
2004-06-08 13:27           ` Takashi Iwai

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