On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 17:07 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > changed dmi_strmatch.substr from char * to char[79]; > > Changing it back to const char * would shrink an x86-64 > defconfig more than 100KB. > > $ size vmlinux.old vmlinux.new > text data bss dec hex filename > 11941725 1825624 1085440 14852789 e2a2b5 vmlinux.old > 11921172 1730648 1085440 14737260 e0df6c vmlinux.new > > modpost has changed a bit since 2008, is it's time to change it back?
Does the match table stuff still work if you do that? I thought the point in changing to an array was to make the table extraction do the right thing because it can't follow pointers... -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
