From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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        Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>,
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        grant.likely@linaro.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: kirkwood: proper retain MAC address workaround on DT ethernet
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 14:47:35 +0200
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On Monday 27 May 2013 21:50:04 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> However, that wouldn't help much with the allocation/leak problem,
> though at least it would be easier to use. It could also *try* to re-use
> the current allocation if the new content is of smaller or equal size.

I thought that dtc tried to aggressively save space by folding identical
strings. If you tried to reuse a property that had its contents shared
with another one, you would get interesting results I guess.

	Arnd
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