Re: [RFC][PATCH] ALSA: Remove subsystem-specific malloc (0/8)

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> This patch introduces a kcalloc() and replaces ALSA magic allocator
> snd_kcalloc() and snd_magic_kcalloc() with it.  I also fixed a memory
> leak in the arm sa11xx driver and added a BUG() in seq_oss_synth to
> catch failing allocations.
> 
> I kept the snd_magic_cast macro in place just in case someone wants to
> add a generic type checking facility in the kernel and convert the users
> to use it.

I suggest to Linus and Andrew to postpone applying of these patches into
mainstream. We'll integrate them (maybe in a slightly modified form - 
after discussion on the alsa-devel mailing list) to our ALSA tree at 
first. Thanks.

						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxx>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs
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