Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: kirkwood: proper retain MAC address workaround on DT ethernet | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Tue, 28 May 2013 07:48:04 +1000 |
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On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 13:18 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> > Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 21:50:04 +1000 > > > It would be handy to be able to just do something like > > > > of_set_property(node, name, ptr, len); > > > > 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. > > And this is so much better of an interface because it allows the > OF implementation to decide how to deal with memory allocation > and freeing.
Absolutely, I'm not arguing that point.
Cheers, Ben.
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