linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] zram: constify attribute

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Date:   Mon, 3 Jul 2017 18:00:47 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>
Cc:     minchan@...nel.org, ngupta@...are.org,
        sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: constify attribute_group structures.

On (07/03/17 11:43), Arvind Yadav wrote:
> attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
> working with attribute_groups provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work with const
> attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const.
> 
> File size before:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>    8293	    841	      4	   9138	   23b2	drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.o
> 
> File size After adding 'const':
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>    8357	    777	      4	   9138	   23b2	drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.o

sorry, what exactly is the improvement here?
we grew .text bigger, why should we be happy about it?

	-ss