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

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 13:18 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.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.