linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] HID: hid-lg: make array cbuf static const to shink object code size

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Date:   Wed, 6 Sep 2017 10:59:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
cc:     Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
        linux-input@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: hid-lg: make array cbuf static const to shink object
 code size

On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, Colin King wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Don't populate array cbuf on the stack, instead make it static.
> Makes the object code smaller by over 110 bytes:
> 
> Before:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   15096	   3504	    128	  18728	   4928	drivers/hid/hid-lg.o
> 
> After:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   14884	   3600	    128	  18612	   48b4	drivers/hid/hid-lg.o
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs