Re: [PATCH v2] pinctrl: ingenic: Garbage-collect code paths for SoCs disabled by config

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Apr 21 2022 - 10:16:00 EST


On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 6:22 PM Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> By being a bit smarter about how the SoC version checks are performed,
> it is possible to have all the code paths that correspond to SoCs
> disabled in the kernel config automatically marked as dead code by the
> compiler, and therefore garbage-collected.
>
> With this patch, when compiling a kernel that only targets the JZ4760
> for instance, the driver is now about 4.5 KiB smaller.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij