Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ethernet: Move eth_*_addr_base to global symbols

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 14:58:35 -0700

On Tue,  9 Apr 2024 17:07:18 +0100 Diogo Ivo wrote:
> Promote IPv4/6 and Ethernet reserved base addresses to global symbols
> to avoid local copies being created when these addresses are referenced.

Did someone bloat-o-meter this?
I agree it's odd but the values are tiny and I'd expect compiler 
to eliminate the dead instances.
I mean, the instances are literally smaller than a pointer we'll
need to refer to them, if they can be inlined..