Re: [PATCH 2/5] hwrng: nomadik - Constify nmk_rng_ids[]

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On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 11:48 PM Rikard Falkeborn
<rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> nmk_rng_ids[] is not modified and can be made const to allow the
> compiler to put it in read-only memory.
>
> Before:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>     652     216       4     872     368 drivers/char/hw_random/nomadik-rng.o
>
> After:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>     676     192       4     872     368 drivers/char/hw_random/nomadik-rng.o

Moving 24 bytes into the .rodata section is probably not a worth
the change, but the patch is correct and I agree this should be
.rodata anway.

> Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/char/hw_random/nomadik-rng.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/nomadik-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/nomadik-rng.c
> index 74ed29f42e4f..b0ded41eb865 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/nomadik-rng.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/nomadik-rng.c
> @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static int nmk_rng_remove(struct amba_device *dev)
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> -static struct amba_id nmk_rng_ids[] = {
> +static const struct amba_id nmk_rng_ids[] = {
>         {
>                 .id     = 0x000805e1,
>                 .mask   = 0x000fffff, /* top bits are rev and cfg: accept all */
> --
> 2.27.0
>



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