netdev - [PATCH] qlcnic: make the array random_data static const, makes object smaller

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Date:   Sun,  1 Aug 2021 16:16:59 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Shahed Shaikh <shshaikh@...vell.com>,
        Manish Chopra <manishc@...vell.com>,
        GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@...vell.com,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] qlcnic: make the array random_data static const, makes object smaller

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

Don't populate the array random_data on the stack but instead it
static const. Makes the object code smaller by 66 bytes.

Before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  52895   10976       0   63871    f97f ../qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.o

After:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  52701   11104       0   63805    f93d ../qlogic//qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.o

(gcc version 10.2.0)

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

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
index d8f0863b3934..f6b6651decf3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_ethtool.c
@@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ static int qlcnic_irq_test(struct net_device *netdev)
 
 static void qlcnic_create_loopback_buff(unsigned char *data, u8 mac[])
 {
-	unsigned char random_data[] = {0xa8, 0x06, 0x45, 0x00};
+	static const unsigned char random_data[] = {0xa8, 0x06, 0x45, 0x00};
 
 	memset(data, 0x4e, QLCNIC_ILB_PKT_SIZE);
 
-- 
2.31.1