From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Don't populate the const array fw_hdr on the stack but instead it static. Makes the object code smaller by 5 bytes: Before: text data bss dec hex filename 31948 12072 64 44084 ac34 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mxl692.o After: text data bss dec hex filename 31879 12136 64 44079 ac2f drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mxl692.o (gcc version 10.3.0) Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mxl692.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mxl692.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mxl692.c index 83030643aba7..a246db683cdf 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mxl692.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/mxl692.c @@ -224,7 +224,9 @@ static int mxl692_validate_fw_header(struct mxl692_dev *dev, u32 ix, temp; __be32 *local_buf = NULL; u8 temp_cksum = 0; - const u8 fw_hdr[] = { 0x4D, 0x31, 0x10, 0x02, 0x40, 0x00, 0x00, 0x80 }; + static const u8 fw_hdr[] = { + 0x4D, 0x31, 0x10, 0x02, 0x40, 0x00, 0x00, 0x80 + }; if (memcmp(buffer, fw_hdr, 8) != 0) { status = -EINVAL; -- 2.30.2