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

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Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.1901282149380.6626@cbobk.fhfr.pm>
Date:   Mon, 28 Jan 2019 21:49:55 +0100 (CET)
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][RESEND] HID: elan: Make array buf static, shrinks object
 size

On Fri, 25 Jan 2019, Colin King wrote:

> 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)

Applied to for-5.1/hid-elan.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs