[PATCH 2/8] make OF node fixup code usable at runtime

Nathan Lynch ntl at pobox.com
Fri Mar 11 12:24:20 EST 2005


On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:50:10AM -0600, John Rose wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > These functions, if passed a null mem_start argument, will
> > use kmalloc for allocating extra data structures for the device node
> > being processed.  
> 
> Might it be possible to use the dynamic flag of the device node to
> decide when to use kmalloc?

D'oh... that didn't occur to me.  I think I will use this idea, it
should reduce the total size of the changes.

Nathan
 



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