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

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Message-ID: <1369691284.3557.34.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Tue, 28 May 2013 07:48:04 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com, buytenh@...tstofly.org,
	jason@...edaemon.net, andrew@...n.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	grant.likely@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: kirkwood: proper retain MAC address workaround
 on DT ethernet

On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 13:18 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 21:50:04 +1000
> 
> > It would be handy to be able to just do something like
> > 
> >       of_set_property(node, name, ptr, len);
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> And this is so much better of an interface because it allows the
> OF implementation to decide how to deal with memory allocation
> and freeing.

Absolutely, I'm not arguing that point.

Cheers,
Ben.


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