Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k: make array voice_priority static const

From: Dan Carpenter <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:08:10 +0300

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 05:19:01PM -0800, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On 2/22/2022 4:17 AM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> > Don't populate the read-only array voice_priority on the stack but
> > instead make it static const. Also makes the object code a little
> > smaller.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mci.c | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mci.c
> > index 39d46c203f6b..5e0ae7e6412f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mci.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mci.c
> > @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ static bool ath_mci_add_profile(struct ath_common *common,
> >   				struct ath_mci_profile_info *info)
> >   {
> >   	struct ath_mci_profile_info *entry;
> > -	u8 voice_priority[] = { 110, 110, 110, 112, 110, 110, 114, 116, 118 };
> > +	static const u8 voice_priority[] = { 110, 110, 110, 112, 110, 110, 114, 116, 118 };
> >   	if ((mci->num_sco == ATH_MCI_MAX_SCO_PROFILE) &&
> >   	    (info->type == MCI_GPM_COEX_PROFILE_VOICE))
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jeff Johnson <[email-masked]>
> 
> An additional cleanup that could be performed in that function:
> 
> 		if (info->voice_type < sizeof(voice_priority))
> 
> replace sizeof() with ARRAY_SIZE() so that it works correctly if the base
> type is ever changed from u8

You're right that ARRAY_SIZE() is better style but we have a bunch of
static analysis to catch the bug if someone changes the type to int or
whatever.

regards,
dan carpenter