All the modules name are ro-data, it is never copied to the array. eg. static struct cpuidle_driver intel_idle_driver = { .name = "intel_idle", .owner = THIS_MODULE, }; It safe to assign the pointer of this ro-data to a const char *. By this way we save 12 bytes. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/cpuidle.h | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/cpuidle.h b/include/linux/cpuidle.h index ca4e498..f7f1d90 100644 --- a/include/linux/cpuidle.h +++ b/include/linux/cpuidle.h @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static inline int cpuidle_get_last_residency(struct cpuidle_device *dev) ****************************/ struct cpuidle_driver { - char name[CPUIDLE_NAME_LEN]; + const char *name; struct module *owner; unsigned int power_specified:1; -- 1.7.5.4 _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm