Hi Alex, On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 12:42:03PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > > To allow device drivers to match identifiers that exceed the 9 byte > > limit, this simply ups the length to 16, just like it was before the > > aforementioned commit. Empirical testing indicates that this > > > This is only true for 64bit systems where padding automatically bloated > to 9 byte array to 16. I still believe the patch is fine as it is, but > there will be minor .rodata overhead on 32bit targets which you may want > to quantify in the patch description. Good point. So I just tried this out with a 32-bit i686 kernel and the results are the same again for the size of vmlinux. I then ran `objdump --headers` and looked at the size of the .rodata section, where it's also the same. I'm not quite sure what to make of this, as it's not what I was expecting, but I think I tested it right. So maybe we're lucky here? Jason
