Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: make arrays static const, makes object smaller

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Sat Aug 21 2021 - 13:50:40 EST


Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Don't populate the arrays wpa_oui and wps_oui on the stack but
> instead them static const. Makes the object code smaller by 63 bytes:
>
> Before:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 29453 5451 64 34968 8898 .../wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.o
>
> After:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 29356 5611 64 35031 88d7 ../wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.o
>
> (gcc version 10.3.0)
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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

da2c9cedc0d0 mwifiex: make arrays static const, makes object smaller

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