Subject: Re: iwlegacy: make const array static to shink object code size

From: Kalle Valo <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:29:49 +0000 (UTC)

Colin Ian King <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <[email-masked]>
> 
> Don't populate const array ac_to_fifo on the stack in an inlined
> function, instead make it static.  Makes the object code smaller
> by over 800 bytes:
> 
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>  159029	  33154	   1216	 193399	  2f377	4965-mac.o
> 
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>  158122	  33250	   1216	 192588	  2f04c	4965-mac.o
> 
> (gcc version 7.2.0 x86_64)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <[email-masked]>
> Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email-masked]>

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

9b029e178ea1 iwlegacy: make const array static to shink object code size

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