netdev - Re: mwifiex: make const arrays static to shink object code size

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20170920124740.CCDD160912@smtp.codeaurora.org>
Date:   Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:47:40 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@...il.com>,
        Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@...vell.com>,
        Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@...vell.com>,
        Xinming Hu <huxm@...vell.com>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mwifiex: make const arrays static to shink object code size

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

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Don't populate const arrays on the stack, instead make them static
> Makes the object code smaller by nearly 300 bytes:
> 
> Before:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   69260	  16149	    576	  85985	  14fe1	cfg80211.o
> 
> After:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   68385	  16725	    576	  85686	  14eb6	cfg80211.o
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

d157bcfaf854 mwifiex: make const arrays static to shink object code size

-- 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9954375/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches