linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] libata: zpodd: make arrays cdb static, reduces object code size

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Date:   Wed, 6 Sep 2017 07:40:54 -0700
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: zpodd: make arrays cdb static, reduces object
 code size

On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 09:56:29AM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Don't populate the arrays cdb on the stack, instead make them static.
> Makes the object code smaller by 230 bytes:
> 
> Before:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>    3797	    240	      0	   4037	    fc5	drivers/ata/libata-zpodd.o
> 
> After:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>    3407	    400	      0	   3807	    edf	drivers/ata/libata-zpodd.o
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied to libata/for-4.14.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun