linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] debloat aic7xxx and aic79xx drivers

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Message-ID: <46F7900F.6010105@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:23:11 +0200
From:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] debloat aic7xxx and aic79xx drivers

Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Friday 31 August 2007 16:15, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> On Friday 31 August 2007 16:13, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>>> Attached are three patches which fix that:
>>>
>>>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>>>  261433   50018    1172  312623   4c52f linux-2.6.23-rc1.org.t/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/built-in.o
>>>  199654   50018    1172  250844   3d3dc linux-2.6.23-rc1.aic.t/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/built-in.o
>>>  184014   21314    1172  206500   326a4 linux-2.6.23-rc1.aic1.t/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/built-in.o
>>>  202378    2850    1172  206400   32640 linux-2.6.23-rc1.aic2.t/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/built-in.o
>>>
>>> 1-debloat.patch    deinlines a lot of functions
>>> 2-addstatic.patch  adds statics, #ifdefs out huge amount of unused code, adds consts
>>> 3-addconst.patch   adds more consts
Have you checked the sequence assembler, too? It doesn't help much to edit the *.shipped files;
someone might just run the assembler again and we're back to square one ...

Apart from this:

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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