Re: [PATCH] HID: prodikeys: make array keys static const, makes object smaller

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Tue Oct 01 2019 - 10:22:03 EST


On Thu, 5 Sep 2019, Colin King wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Don't populate the array keys on the stack but instead make it
> static const. Makes the object code smaller by 166 bytes.
>
> Before:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 18931 5872 480 25283 62c3 drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.o
>
> After:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 18669 5968 480 25117 621d drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.o
>
> (gcc version 9.2.1, amd64)
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.c b/drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.c
> index 21544ebff855..fb6841ebe4d9 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-prodikeys.c
> @@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ static void pcmidi_setup_extra_keys(
> MY PICTURES => KEY_WORDPROCESSOR
> MY MUSIC=> KEY_SPREADSHEET
> */
> - unsigned int keys[] = {
> + static const unsigned int keys[] = {
> KEY_FN,
> KEY_MESSENGER, KEY_CALENDAR,
> KEY_ADDRESSBOOK, KEY_DOCUMENTS,
> @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ static void pcmidi_setup_extra_keys(
> 0
> };
>
> - unsigned int *pkeys = &keys[0];
> + const unsigned int *pkeys = &keys[0];
> unsigned short i;

Applied, thanks for the fix.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs