> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 18:05:04 -0700 (MST)
> From: dalecki <dalecki@cs.net.pl>
>
> 5. The slab allocator contains may many glorious features not used by
> anybody in the current kernel.
>
> Maybe that's the darvinistic proof that theyr are not as usefull
> as one would think in first place?
>
> They must stay, they are used when a major leak or other type of
> allocation bug exists in a subsystem. You turn them on to catch the
> bug in the act, never leave them on in production. This is an
> important debugging tool myself and others use on occaision, and I
> don't want it to disappear on me.
Yes damn but expierence shows, that Linus doesn't disable any single line
of initailly developement debugging code int the so called stable
releases. (Like for example the trementeous assertion code in the serial
driver). Maybe there should be some serious tought put into how to
centralize those all developement features maybe in a single header file
as ifdef switches?
>
> Later,
> David S. Miller
> davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com
>
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