[PATCH 1/2] ARM: kirkwood: proper retain MAC address workaround on DT ethernet

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon May 27 08:47:35 EDT 2013


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.

	Arnd



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