From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A65B32C02FA for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 22:47:45 +1000 (EST) From: Arnd Bergmann To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: kirkwood: proper retain MAC address workaround on DT ethernet Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 14:47:35 +0200 Message-ID: <2255648.0KEmXfjCx5@wuerfel> In-Reply-To: <1369655404.3557.33.camel@pasglop> References: <1369253042-15082-1-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> <51A33447.80305@gmail.com> <1369655404.3557.33.camel@pasglop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, jason@lakedaemon.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, grant.likely@linaro.org, David Miller , buytenh@wantstofly.org, Sebastian Hesselbarth List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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