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

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2017 09:24:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com, ariel.elior@...ium.com,
        everest-linux-l2@...ium.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: broadcom: bnx2x: make a couple of const arrays
 static

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:52:23 +0100

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

Applied.