Re: [PATCH 1/2] pinctrl: ingenic: Get rid of repetitive data

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Nov 06 2020 - 08:44:19 EST


On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 10:01 AM Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Abuse the pin function pointer to store the pin function value directly,
> when all the pins of a group have the same function value. Now when the
> pointer value is <= 3 (unsigned), the pointer value is used as the pin
> function; otherwise it is used as a regular pointer.
>
> This drastically reduces the number of pin function tables needed, and
> drops .data usage by about 2 KiB. Additionally, the few pin function
> tables that are still around now contain u8 instead of int, since the
> largest number that will be stored is 3.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Both patches applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij