Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: pcie: make array 'prop' static, shrinks object size

[Luciano Coelho]

On Tue, 2018-08-21 at 11:21 +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Don't populate the array prop on the stack but instead make it static.
> Makes the object code smaller by 30 bytes:
> 
> Before:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   80138	  15382	    576	  96096	  17760	drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.o
> 
> After:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   79948	  15542	    576	  96066	  17742	drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.o
> 
> (gcc version 8.2.0 x86_64)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c
> index 7d319b6863fe..c7daf666ee21 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c
> @@ -1947,7 +1947,7 @@ static void iwl_trans_pcie_removal_wk(struct work_struct *wk)
>  	struct iwl_trans_pcie_removal *removal =
>  		container_of(wk, struct iwl_trans_pcie_removal, work);
>  	struct pci_dev *pdev = removal->pdev;
> -	char *prop[] = {"EVENT=INACCESSIBLE", NULL};
> +	static char *prop[] = {"EVENT=INACCESSIBLE", NULL};
>  
>  	dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Device gone - attempting removal\n");
>  	kobject_uevent_env(&pdev->dev.kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE, prop);

Thanks! I pushed this to our internal tree and it will reach upstream
following our normal process.

--
Luca.