Re: [PATCH net-next] net: hns3: Constify static structs

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Sep 23 2020 - 20:32:39 EST


From: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:55:17 +0200

> A number of static variables were not modified. Make them const to allow
> the compiler to put them in read-only memory. In order to do so,
> constify a couple of input pointers as well as some local pointers.
> This moves about 35Kb to read-only memory as seen by the output of the
> size command.
>
> Before:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 404938 111534 640 517112 7e3f8 drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge.ko
>
> After:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 439499 76974 640 517113 7e3f9 drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns3/hns3pf/hclge.ko
>
> Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied.