Re: [RFC PATCH] type safe allocator

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+/**
+ * k_new - allocate given type object
+ * @type: the type of the object to allocate
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
+ */
+#define k_new(type, flags) ((type *) kmalloc(sizeof(type), flags))

What others already said, plus:

kmalloc()'ing sizeof(struct foo) is not always what we want in C either.

Several kernel structs have zero-length / variable-length array members
and space must be allocated for them only at alloc() time ... would be
impossible to make them work with this scheme.

Exactly.  We can, and should use kmalloc() for that.

Miklos

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