linux-kernel - Re: Bloatwatch 2.6.28-rc1: i8042 DMI lookup tables

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Date:	Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:28:20 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
cc:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Bloatwatch 2.6.28-rc1: i8042 DMI lookup tables

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> I would like to get rid of .ident strings in cases when drivers don't
> use them for anything, this should free some more memory.

Yes, that could be nice thing to do indeed. They are usually used only to 
store a human-readable description of the device anyway, which is then not 
printed anywhere, and therefore a plain C comment should be sufficient 
instead.

It will require fixing dmi_check_system() though, as it's one of those 
rare functions actually using ->ident field for detecting end of the list.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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