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

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On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 01:45:30PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 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.

I do no see the point really. If I am not exposing the new APIs then
there is no point in touching the code. If I am creating new API then I
do not want to go through contortion of producing something similar to
the old code flow just to "fix" it in the subsequent patch.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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