Re: [PATCH 1/2] device property: export code duplicating array of property entries

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Mon Jan 23 2017 - 17:47:02 EST


On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 05:00:38PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-01-22 at 23:38 -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.
> >
>
> Looks good to me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Couple of style nitpicks.
>
> >
> > +struct property_entry *property_entries_dup(
> > + const struct property_entry
> > *properties)
>
> Can we use
>
> struct propert_entry *
> property_entries_dup(...)
>
> ?

Sure, will adjust. I also realized we'll need property_entries_free()
for proper cleanups. I'll repost the series.

>
>
> > +struct property_entry *property_entries_dup(
> > + const struct property_entry
> > *properties);
> >
>
> Ditto.
>
> --
> Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Intel Finland Oy

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Dmitry