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From: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: Copy constraints from regulators when initialising them
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:15:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1291130103.3293.16.camel@odin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291046117-9090-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 15:55 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> Currently the regulator API uses the constraints structure passed in to
> the core throughout the lifetime of the object. This means that it is not
> possible to mark the constraints as __initdata so if the kernel supports
> many boards the constraints for all of them are kept around throughout the
> lifetime of the system, consuming memory needlessly. By copying constraints
> that are actually used we allow the use of __initdata, saving memory when
> multiple boards are supported.
> 
> This also means the constraints can be const.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

Applied.

Thanks

Liam
-- 
Freelance Developer, SlimLogic Ltd
ASoC and Voltage Regulator Maintainer.
http://www.slimlogic.co.uk


      reply	other threads:[~2010-11-30 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-29 15:55 [PATCH] regulator: Copy constraints from regulators when initialising them Mark Brown
2010-11-30 15:15 ` Liam Girdwood [this message]

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