Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: Remove hole in pinctrl_gpio_range

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 3:51 PM Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 64-bit platforms, pointer size and alignment are 64-bit, hence two
> 4-byte holes are present before the pins and gc members of the
> pinctrl_gpio_range structure.  Get rid of these holes by moving the
> pins pointer.
>
> This reduces kernel size of an arm64 Rockchip kernel by ca. 512 bytes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Compile-tested only (arm/multi_v7_defconfig and arm64/defconfig).

Patch applied.

Do you think it'd be worth it to add a check to checkpatch to suggest
to move pointers toward the end of any struct?

Yours,
Linus Walleij