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Message-ID: <20170719224059.GA14741@embeddedgus>
Date:   Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:40:59 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] soc: versatile: remove unnecessary static in
 realview_soc_probe()

Remove unnecessary static on local variables syscon_regmap.
Such variables are initialized before being used, on every
execution path throughout the functions. The static has no
benefit and, removing it reduces the object file size.

This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following
semantic patch:

@bad exists@
position p;
identifier x;
type T;
@@

static T x@p;
...
x = <+...x...+>

@@
identifier x;
expression e;
type T;
position p != bad.p;
@@

-static
 T x@p;
 ... when != x
     when strict
?x = e;

In the following log you can see the difference in the object file size.
This log is the output of the size command, before and after the code
change:

before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   3339    2104     128    5571    15c3 drivers/soc/versatile/soc-realview.o

after:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   3321    2048      64    5433    1539 drivers/soc/versatile/soc-realview.o

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
---
 drivers/soc/versatile/soc-realview.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soc/versatile/soc-realview.c b/drivers/soc/versatile/soc-realview.c
index 282e371..caf698e 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/versatile/soc-realview.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/versatile/soc-realview.c
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static struct device_attribute realview_build_attr =
 
 static int realview_soc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
-	static struct regmap *syscon_regmap;
+	struct regmap *syscon_regmap;
 	struct soc_device *soc_dev;
 	struct soc_device_attribute *soc_dev_attr;
 	struct device_node *np = pdev->dev.of_node;
-- 
2.5.0

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