Re: [PATCH] net: phy: mscc: make arrays static, makes object smaller

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Oct 08 2019 - 15:13:35 EST


On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 13:03:08 +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Don't populate const arrays on the stack but instead make them
> static. Makes the object code smaller by 1058 bytes.
>
> Before:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 29879 6144 0 36023 8cb7 drivers/net/phy/mscc.o
>
> After:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 28437 6528 0 34965 8895 drivers/net/phy/mscc.o
>
> (gcc version 9.2.1, amd64)
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to net-next, thanks.