Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 May 2013 15:17:44 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: kirkwood: proper retain MAC address workaround on DT ethernet | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 07:50:06 +1000
> 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.
This is similar to what the "OF_IS_DYNAMIC()" thing on sparc indicates.
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