netdev - RE: [PATCH] net: broadcom: bnx2x: make a couple of const arrays static

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Date:   Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:42:03 +0000
From:   "Mintz, Yuval" <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     "kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Elior, Ariel" <Ariel.Elior@...ium.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] net: broadcom: bnx2x: make a couple of const arrays
 static

> Don't populate various tables on the stack but make them static const.
> Makes the object code smaller by nearly 200 bytes:
> 
> Before:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>  113468	  11200	      0	 124668	  1e6fc	bnx2x_ethtool.o
> 
> After:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>  113129	  11344	      0	 124473	  1e639	bnx2x_ethtool.o
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Thanks Colin.
Acked-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com>