linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] device property: export code duplicating array of property entries

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Message-ID: <1486122330.2133.374.camel@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 03 Feb 2017 13:45:30 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] device property: export code duplicating array
 of property entries

On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 17:41 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> When augmenting ACPI-enumerated devices with additional property data
> based
> on DMI info, a module has often several potential property sets, with
> only
> one being active on a given box. In order to save memory it should be
> possible to mark everything and __initdata or __initconst, execute DMI
> match early, and duplicate relevant properties. Then kernel will
> discard
> the rest of them.
> 

Here you again rewrote the code you rewrote in previous patch.
Please, remove those hunks in previous patch and rebase this one on top
of the result.

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy