linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] char/mwave: make some arrays static const to make object code smaller

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Date:   Mon, 10 Jul 2017 17:28:11 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...e-electrons.com>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] char/mwave: make some arrays static const to make object
 code smaller

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>
> Don't populate arrays on the stack but make them static.  Makes
> the object code smaller.  Also remove temporary variables that
> have hard coded array sizes and just use ARRAY_SIZE instead and
> wrap some lines that are wider than 80 chars to clean up some
> checkpatch warnings.
>
> Before:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   11141    2008      64   13213    339d drivers/char/mwave/smapi.o
>
> After:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   10697    2352      64   13113    3339 drivers/char/mwave/smapi.o
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Did you use a particular tool that found these variables?

I assume you are not actually using the driver ;-)