Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6 7/9] Remove some of the kmemleak false positives

From: Pekka J Enberg
Date: Tue Jun 13 2006 - 04:19:22 EST


On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> This also means that by default we'd have no false positives at all, but
> that there is a capable annotation method to reduce the amount of false
> negatives, in a gradual and managable way - down to zero if everything
> is annotated.

Yeah, sounds much better to me. However, I am unable to figure out any
real examples where we'd actually need the annotations for reasonably
sane code. Do you have some in mind?

Pekka
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