[parted-devel] [Parted-edge] [RFC][PATCH] Remove alloca from libparted/arch/linux.c

[Matt Davis]

On 9/6/07, Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> writes:
>
> > Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:
> >> But Jim, if this is the right thing to do we ought start doing it now
> >> since we can break API (on master).
> >>
> >> Obviously that we're going to need a lot of testing and like but I
> >> can't think in a better time for it.
> >
> > Most volunteers aren't interested in working on fixing an interface or
> > an entire library/application just because it's ugly and unmaintainable --
> > besides, as people tend to say, "it already works, so why bother?".
> > Of course, I think it's worth fixing, but I don't have much time for
> > parted these days.
> >
> > Doing such clean-up work is hard, not "sexy", and largely thankless.
> > It'd be great to find qualified people to work on it.
>
> Yes but we're starting to get more people sending patches and we might
> get them involved at it.
>
> You, me and others could help and coordinate it all together.
>
> Frodo, ping?

Yes, I would not mind helping adding some more code.     Especially
for error handling and what not.  Underlying framework stuff would be
ideal.

-Matt