From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Don't populate the array buf on the stack but instead make it static. Makes the object code smaller by 43 bytes: Before: text data bss dec hex filename 7769 1520 0 9289 2449 drivers/hid/hid-elan.o After: text data bss dec hex filename 7662 1584 0 9246 241e drivers/hid/hid-elan.o (gcc version 8.2.0 x86_64) Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hid/hid-elan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-elan.c b/drivers/hid/hid-elan.c index 0bfd6d1b44c1..1c62095cee99 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-elan.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-elan.c @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ static int elan_start_multitouch(struct hid_device *hdev) * This byte sequence will enable multitouch mode and disable * mouse emulation */ - const unsigned char buf[] = { 0x0D, 0x00, 0x03, 0x21, 0x00 }; + static const unsigned char buf[] = { 0x0D, 0x00, 0x03, 0x21, 0x00 }; unsigned char *dmabuf = kmemdup(buf, sizeof(buf), GFP_KERNEL); if (!dmabuf) -- 2.19.1