Re: [PATCH] gpio: 104-dio-48e: make array 'ports' static, shrinks object size

[William Breathitt Gray]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:06:05AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 2:00 PM, Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Don't populate the const read-only array 'ports' on the stack but instead
>> make it static. Makes the object code smaller by over 100 buytes:
>>
>> Before:
>>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>>   10959    4952     832   16743    4167 drivers/gpio/gpio-104-dio-48e.o
>>
>> After:
>>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>>   10790    5008     832   16630    40f6 drivers/gpio/gpio-104-dio-48e.o
>>
>> (gcc version 7.2.0 x86_64)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Patch applied with William's ACK.
>
>Yours,
>Linus Walleij

Hi Linus,

A more recent version of this patch including similar changes to
gpio-gpio-mm.c and gpio-104-idi-48.c is located here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/18/613

William Breathitt Gray