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From: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.Fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] regmap: Add the LZO cache support
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 21:40:45 +0000 (UTC)
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Dimitris Papastamos <dp <at> opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> writes:

> 
> This patch adds support for LZO compression when storing the register
> cache.
> 
> For a typical device whose register map would normally occupy 25kB or 50kB
> by using the LZO compression technique, one can get down to ~5-7kB.  
Do you have example of such case ?

Caching 25kB or 50kB looks crazy.