[PATCH 02/10] lib: genalloc: Generic allocator improvements

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Jun 10 07:24:51 EDT 2011


I am curious about one thing

Why do we need this allocator. Why not use allocate_resource and friends.
The kernel generic resource handler already handles object alignment and
subranges. It just seems to be a surplus allocator that could perhaps be
mostly removed by using the kernel resource allocator we already have ?

Alan



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