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

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Jan 23 2017 - 10:02:24 EST


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(...)

?


> +struct property_entry *property_entries_dup(
> + const struct property_entry
> *properties);
>

Ditto.

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy