Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc4 6/6] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives

Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 13/05/06, Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMLEAK
>> +               /* avoid a false alarm. That's not a memory leak */
>> +               memleak_free(out);
>> +#endif
> 
> 
> Hmm, so eventually we are going to end up with a bunch of ussgly #ifdef
> CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMLEAK's all over the place?
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to just make memleak_free() an empty stub in the
> !CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMLEAK case?

Yes, I'll make empty stubs (Paul suggested this as well).

Catalin
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