Re: [PATCH 05.1/16] of:overlay: missing name, phandle, linux, phandle in new nodes

On 10/11/18 12:33, Alan Tull wrote:

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 12:39 AM Frank Rowand [off-list ref] wrote:

[resend of my messed up rejected email of a minute ago, sorry]

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On 10/10/18 14:03, Frank Rowand wrote:

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I understand you're quite busy with all this, but I'm wondering
whether it might be worth it go ahead and make the properties be
kernel objects also at this point.  That would be an improvement for
the case of overlay properties added to non-overlay nodes, so the
lifespan of the overlay property memory can be coupled with the
properties kobj's instead of the node kobj's.

Alan

That is one of the approaches that I am thinking about to handle
the potential memory leaks from those properties.

I'd like to make these changes in a step wise fashion, to let each
major change get some exposure and use before moving on to the
next step.  Making properties into kernel objects would impact
a lot of code.

So not in this series.  But thanks for thinking about it.

-Frank