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Re: mwifiex: make const arrays static to shink object code size

From Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: mwifiex: make const arrays static to shink object code size
Date 2017-09-20 14:50 +0200
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Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> Don't populate const arrays on the stack, instead make them static
> Makes the object code smaller by nearly 300 bytes:
> 
> Before:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   69260	  16149	    576	  85985	  14fe1	cfg80211.o
> 
> After:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   68385	  16725	    576	  85686	  14eb6	cfg80211.o
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

d157bcfaf854 mwifiex: make const arrays static to shink object code size

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9954375/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches

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[PATCH] mwifiex: make const arrays static to shink object code size Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> - 2017-09-16 17:40 +0200
  Re: mwifiex: make const arrays static to shink object code size Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2017-09-20 14:50 +0200

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