From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Don't populate the read-only array descs on the stack but instead it static and add extra const. Also makes the object code smaller by 66 bytes: Before: text data bss dec hex filename 42382 11140 512 54034 d312 ./drivers/md/dm-clone-target.o After: text data bss dec hex filename 42220 11236 512 53968 d2d0 ./drivers/md/dm-clone-target.o (gcc version 11.2.0) Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-clone-target.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-clone-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-clone-target.c index 84dbe08ad205..29f74b2a5cd2 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-clone-target.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-clone-target.c @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static const char *clone_device_name(struct clone *clone) static void __set_clone_mode(struct clone *clone, enum clone_metadata_mode new_mode) { - const char *descs[] = { + static const char * const descs[] = { "read-write", "read-only", "fail" -- 2.32.0