Re: [PATCH] drivers/char/specialix.c: stop inlining largish static functions

[Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:38:11PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 
> -	static const char *badmagic =
> +	static const char badmagic[] =
>  		KERN_ERR "sx: Warning: bad specialix port magic number for 
>  		device %s in %s\n";
[...]
>  	if (port->magic != SPECIALIX_MAGIC) {
>  		printk(badmagic, name, routine);
>  		return 1;
>  	}

In a galaxy, far, far away, someone thought that this would save
memory. Especially if you print a message multiple times, the compiler
usually doesn't merge the string constants of two copies of: 

	printk (KERN_ERR "Bad magic number...");

Maybe it does now. (I don't think I came up with this. I probably
copied it over from somewhere....)

	Roger. 

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