linux-kernel - Re: platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi: Adjustments for four function implementations

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Message-ID: <1514940583.31497.4.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 02 Jan 2018 16:49:43 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
        ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <ibm-acpi@....eng.br>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi: Adjustments for four function
 implementations

On Tue, 2018-01-02 at 16:10 -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
> > > Leave those pr_ messages alone, please,
[]
> Andy and Henrique raised a few reasons why these patches should not be
> accepted:
> 
> 1. This is init code (so any space savings is short lived)

Not exactly true.

The object code itself is short lived, but the
string constant of the format is not as it is
placed in const and not discarded.