Re: [RFC] ASLA design, depth of code review and lack thereof

[Jeff Garzik]

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


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