From: Colin Ian King <[email protected]> Don't populate the const array mode_name on the stack but instead make it static. Makes the object code smaller by 41 bytes:
Before: text data bss dec hex filename 7699 1872 0 9571 2563 drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.o After: text data bss dec hex filename 7594 1936 0 9530 253a drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.o (gcc version 8.2.0 x86_64) Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <[email protected]> --- drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.c index 2cf56b459d84..9768e44ffeb8 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.c @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ static int asm9260_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) struct watchdog_device *wdd; struct resource *res; int ret; - const char * const mode_name[] = { "hw", "sw", "debug", }; + static const char * const mode_name[] = { "hw", "sw", "debug", }; priv = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct asm9260_wdt_priv), GFP_KERNEL); -- 2.19.1
