Re: [PATCH] netlink: NL_SET_ERR_MSG - remove local static array

[Jonathan Toppins]

On 8/9/21 1:04 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> The want was to have some separate object section for netlink messages
> so all netlink messages could be specifically listed by some tool but
> the effect is duplicating static const char arrays in the object code.
>
> It seems unused presently so change the macro to avoid the local static
> declarations until such time as these actually are wanted and used.
>
> This reduces object size ~8KB in an x86-64 defconfig without modules.
>
> $ size vmlinux.o*
>     text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> 20110471	3460344	 741760	24312575	172faff	vmlinux.o.new
> 20119444	3460344	 741760	24321548	1731e0c	vmlinux.o.old
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Seems reasonable.

Acked-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@xxxxxxxxxx>