linux-kernel - [PATCH] HID: elan: Make array buf static, shrinks object size

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Message-Id: <20180926084150.17514-1-colin.king@canonical.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:41:50 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
        linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] HID: elan: Make array buf static, shrinks object size

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Don't populate the array buf on the stack but instead make it
static. Makes the object code smaller by 43 bytes:

Before:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   7769	   1520	      0	   9289	   2449	drivers/hid/hid-elan.o

After:
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   7662	   1584	      0	   9246	   241e	drivers/hid/hid-elan.o

(gcc version 8.2.0 x86_64)

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/hid/hid-elan.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-elan.c b/drivers/hid/hid-elan.c
index 07e26c3567eb..05377eec2cb2 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-elan.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-elan.c
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ static int elan_start_multitouch(struct hid_device *hdev)
 	 * This byte sequence will enable multitouch mode and disable
 	 * mouse emulation
 	 */
-	const unsigned char buf[] = { 0x0D, 0x00, 0x03, 0x21, 0x00 };
+	static const unsigned char buf[] = { 0x0D, 0x00, 0x03, 0x21, 0x00 };
 	unsigned char *dmabuf = kmemdup(buf, sizeof(buf), GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	if (!dmabuf)
-- 
2.17.1