Randy Dunlap wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: >> Bela Lubkin wrote: >>> Andrew Morton wrote: >>> >>>>> Sometime, please go through the IPMI code looking for all these >>>>> statically-allocated things which are initialised to 0 or NULL and >>>>> remove >>>>> all those intialisations? They're unneeded, they increase the >>>>> vmlinux >>>>> image size and there are quite a number of them. Thanks. >>> >>> Randy Dunlop replied: >>> >>>> I was just about to send that patch. Here it is, >>>> on top of the series-of-12. >>> ... >>>> -static int bt_debug = BT_DEBUG_OFF; >>>> +static int bt_debug; >>> >>> Is it wise to significantly degrade code readability to work around >>> a minor >>> compiler / linker bug? >> >> Is that the only one that is a problem? >> >> I don't think it's a problem. We *know* that static data areas >> are init to 0. Everything depends on that. If that didn't work >> it would all break. >> >> I could say that it's a nice coincidence that BT_DEBUG_OFF == 0, >> but I think that it's more than coincidence. > > It's Corey's decision. However, while code readability is also very > important to me, I disagree with "significantly" above. > I think the optimizations are probably important enough that this should be done. Let's take Randy's patch and I will add a comment to BT_DEBUG_OFF that says that the value must be zero to correspond to the default uninitialized value.
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