netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: phy: bcm7xxx: make array bcm7xxx_suspend

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Date:   Fri, 01 Sep 2017 18:31:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: bcm7xxx: make array bcm7xxx_suspend_cfg
 static, reduces object code size

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:57:15 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Don't populate the array bcm7xxx_suspend_cfg A on the stack, instead
> make it static.  Makes the object code smaller by over 300 bytes:
> 
> Before:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>    6351	   8146	      0	  14497	   38a1	drivers/net/phy/bcm7xxx.o
> 
> After:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>    5986	   8210	      0	  14196	   3774	drivers/net/phy/bcm7xxx.o
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied.