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From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date:   Fri, 1 Oct 2021 13:38:11 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] arm64: Kconfig: Update ARCH_EXYNOS select configs
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On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 7:36 AM Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> wrote:

> A much more valuable approach would be to work towards being able to
> free up memory by un-probed drivers at the end of boot. That would
> possibly benefit all platforms on all architectures.

This would be really neat.

Also the ages-old problem of discarding unreferenced strings which
apparently still isn't possible would be great to have solved. E.g.
to couple strings to the file/module it belongs with and discard them
if the code is not probed.

Yours,
Linus Walleij