linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] libata-eh: Use switch() instead of sparse array for protocol strings

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Date:   Mon, 9 Jan 2017 10:23:19 -0500
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata-eh: Use switch() instead of sparse array for
 protocol strings

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 03:49:28PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Replace the sparse 256-pointer array for looking up protocol strings by
> a switch() statement to reduce kernel size.
> 
> According to bloat-o-meter, this saves 910 bytes on m68k (32-bit), and
> 1892 bytes on arm64 (64-bit).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>

Gees, thanks for catching that.

Applied to libata/for-4.11.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun