Re: [PATCH][RESEND] HID: elan: Make array buf static, shrinks object size
From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Mon Jan 28 2019 - 15:50:00 EST
On Fri, 25 Jan 2019, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Don't populate the array buf on the stack but instead make it
> static. Makes the object code smaller by 43 bytes:
>
> Before:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 7769 1520 0 9289 2449 drivers/hid/hid-elan.o
>
> After:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 7662 1584 0 9246 241e drivers/hid/hid-elan.o
>
> (gcc version 8.2.0 x86_64)
Applied to for-5.1/hid-elan.
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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs