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From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Martin Galvan <omgalvan.86@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 10:32:18AM -0300, Martin Galvan wrote:
> El dom., 16 sept. 2018 a las 16:16, Jarkko Sakkinen
> (<jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>) escribio:
> > I understand your concerns but without a concrete workload there is no
> > problem with this behavior.
> 
> IMHO it's a bit excessive to allocate 4k to end up storing than 100
> bytes. Beyond that, it's a pretty big gotcha for someone who's writing
> software which talks to the driver :)

I remember now the patch from Tadeus. Yeah, it does make sense assuming
we can land a solution that does not cause ABI breaks.

/Jarkko