From: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
To: "Peter Hüwe" <PeterHuewe@gmx.de>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>,
linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] video/sis: Use SiS_DRAMType from init.h and annotate it __devinitconst
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 21:48:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA2FD10.6090306@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201205032340.34483.PeterHuewe@gmx.de>
Hi Peter,
On 05/03/2012 09:40 PM, Peter Hüwe wrote:
> Hi Florian,
>
>> As far as I can see it should be possible to keep the array in
>> sis_main.c and just delete it in the header files, shouldn't it? I'd
>> prefer to do it this way.
>
> Yes it is absolutely possible to leave it in sis_main.c and remove it from the
> header files. I already thought about this when creating the patch, but
> decided against it, as the 17*5 = 85 bytes are allocated on the stack, while
> they nicely can be put in the .devinit.rodata section ;)
You can still mark it as __devinitconst, I just wanted to have the array
inside a C file, not a header. If you agree with this, I'll change your
new patch that way.
>
> With the patch:
> 344072 sis_main.o
> 1200950 sisfb.o
> 1217491 sisfb.ko
>
> vs without the patch and removing it only from the header:
> 344176 sis_main.o
> 1201056 sisfb.o
> 1217597 sisfb.ko -> ~100bytes more in the final module.
>
> However I'm fine with this and will remove it from the header and squash this
> together with the
> "video/sis: Remove unused structs SiS_SDRDRAM_TYPE/SiS_DDRDRAM_TYPE"
> I also sent to you.
Thanks,
Florian Tobias Schandinat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-03 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-15 21:10 [PATCH 1/2] video/sis: Use SiS_DRAMType from init.h and annotate it __devinitconst Peter Huewe
2012-04-15 21:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] video/sis: Remove unused structs SiS_SDRDRAM_TYPE/SiS_DDRDRAM_TYPE Peter Huewe
2012-04-29 20:26 ` [PATCH v2] video/sis: Use SiS_DRAMType from init.h and annotate it __devinitconst Peter Huewe
2012-05-02 23:12 ` Florian Tobias Schandinat
2012-05-03 21:40 ` Peter Hüwe
2012-05-03 21:48 ` Florian Tobias Schandinat [this message]
2012-05-03 21:58 ` Peter Hüwe
2012-05-03 22:14 ` [PATCH] video/sis: Annotate SiS_DRAMType as __devinitconst Peter Huewe
2012-05-10 0:19 ` Florian Tobias Schandinat
2012-05-10 21:39 ` Peter Hüwe
2012-05-13 13:04 ` Florian Tobias Schandinat
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