Re: [PATCH] media: staging: rkisp1: rsz: make const array static, makes object smaller

[Dafna Hirschfeld <dafna.hirschfeld@collabora.com>]

Am 20.10.20 um 17:29 schrieb David Laight:
> From: Colin King
>> Sent: 20 October 2020 15:47
>>
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>>
>> Don't populate the const array dev_names on the stack but instead it
>> static. Makes the object code smaller by 15 bytes.
>>
>> Before:
>>     text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>>    17091	   2648	     64	  19803	   4d5b	media/rkisp1/rkisp1-resizer.o
>>
>> After:
>>     text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>>    17012	   2712	     64	  19788	   4d4c	media/rkisp1/rkisp1-resizer.o
>>
>> (gcc version 10.2.0)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/staging/media/rkisp1/rkisp1-resizer.c | 6 ++++--
>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/rkisp1/rkisp1-resizer.c b/drivers/staging/media/rkisp1/rkisp1-
>> resizer.c
>> index 1687d82e6c68..7ca5b47c5bf5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/media/rkisp1/rkisp1-resizer.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/rkisp1/rkisp1-resizer.c
>> @@ -763,8 +763,10 @@ static void rkisp1_rsz_unregister(struct rkisp1_resizer *rsz)
>>
>>   static int rkisp1_rsz_register(struct rkisp1_resizer *rsz)
>>   {
>> -	const char * const dev_names[] = {RKISP1_RSZ_MP_DEV_NAME,
>> -					  RKISP1_RSZ_SP_DEV_NAME};
>> +	static const char * const dev_names[] = {
>> +		RKISP1_RSZ_MP_DEV_NAME,
>> +		RKISP1_RSZ_SP_DEV_NAME
>> +	};
>>   	struct media_pad *pads = rsz->pads;
>>   	struct v4l2_subdev *sd = &rsz->sd;
>>   	int ret;
> 
> Don't look at what that code is actually doing....
> It is rather horrid.
> rkisp1_rsz_register() is called for each entry in an array (twice).
> The array index is written into rsz->id.
> The value is then used to select one of the two strings.
> But rsz->id is actually an enum type.

Hi,
Is it that bad to use enum as an array index?
we use it in many places in the driver.

Thanks,
Dafna

> 
> rkisp1_rsz_register() should probably just be called twice with some
> extra parameters.
> 
> 	David
> 
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