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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: kirkwood: proper retain MAC address workaround
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
        Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>,
        andrew@lunn.ch, jason@lakedaemon.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
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        grant.likely@linaro.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 07:50:06 +1000
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On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 14:47 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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.

It used to be only property names, unless that has changed in recent
dtc. But that's a good point, we probably want a flag in struct property
like we have for nodes, indicating whether it comes from the original
fdt data pool or not.

Cheers,
Ben.


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