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From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Panagiotis Issaris" <takis@gna.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] drivers: Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc.
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On 7/20/06, Panagiotis Issaris <takis@gna.org> wrote:
> I figured someone might want to add extra code in f.e. RIOGetCmddBlk to
> be able to debug/modify memory allocation behavior for the RIO driver
> only. It does look a bit messy though. So I've updated it in my updated
> patch.

Yes, we have people adding those and I keep trying to get rid of them
;-). With Al Viro's slab memory leak tracking patches in-tree and
Catalin's kmemleak on the way, there really is no excuse adding new
ones.