Re: [PATCH] char/mwave: make some arrays static const to make object code smaller

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On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Don't populate arrays on the stack but make them static.  Makes
> the object code smaller.  Also remove temporary variables that
> have hard coded array sizes and just use ARRAY_SIZE instead and
> wrap some lines that are wider than 80 chars to clean up some
> checkpatch warnings.
>
> Before:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   11141    2008      64   13213    339d drivers/char/mwave/smapi.o
>
> After:
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   10697    2352      64   13113    3339 drivers/char/mwave/smapi.o
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Did you use a particular tool that found these variables?

I assume you are not actually using the driver ;-)
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