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SubjectRe: Bloatwatch 2.6.28-rc1: i8042 DMI lookup tables
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> I would like to get rid of .ident strings in cases when drivers don't
> use them for anything, this should free some more memory.

Yes, that could be nice thing to do indeed. They are usually used only to
store a human-readable description of the device anyway, which is then not
printed anywhere, and therefore a plain C comment should be sufficient
instead.

It will require fixing dmi_check_system() though, as it's one of those
rare functions actually using ->ident field for detecting end of the list.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs



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