Gustavo A. R. Silva
fa39210d41
This structure is only used to copy into other structure, so declare
it as const.
This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:
@r disable optional_qualifier@
identifier i;
position p;
@@
static struct gpio_chip i@p = { ... };
@ok@
identifier r.i;
expression e;
position p;
@@
e = i@p;
@bad@
position p != {r.p,ok.p};
identifier r.i;
struct gpio_chip e;
@@
e@i@p
@depends on !bad disable optional_qualifier@
identifier r.i;
@@
static
+const
struct gpio_chip i = { ... };
In the following log you can see a significant difference in the code size
and data segment, hence in the dec segment. This log is the output
of the size command, before and after the code change:
before:
text data bss dec hex filename
11866 3520 128 15514 3c9a drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-rza1.o
after:
text data bss dec hex filename
11539 3464 128 15131 3b1b drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-rza1.o
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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