Re: [PATCH] soc: versatile: remove unnecessary static in realview_soc_probe()

["Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>]

On 08/02/2017 06:59 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:40 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva
> <gustavo@embeddedor.com> wrote:
>
>> Remove unnecessary static on local variables syscon_regmap.
>> Such variables are initialized before being used, on every
>> execution path throughout the functions. The static has no
>> benefit and, removing it reduces the object file size.
>>
>> This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following
>> semantic patch:
>>
>> @bad exists@
>> position p;
>> identifier x;
>> type T;
>> @@
>>
>> static T x@p;
>> ...
>> x = <+...x...+>
>>
>> @@
>> identifier x;
>> expression e;
>> type T;
>> position p != bad.p;
>> @@
>>
>> -static
>>  T x@p;
>>  ... when != x
>>      when strict
>> ?x = e;
>>
>> In the following log you can see the difference in the object file size.
>> This log is the output of the size command, before and after the code
>> change:
>>
>> before:
>>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>>    3339    2104     128    5571    15c3 drivers/soc/versatile/soc-realview.o
>>
>> after:
>>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>>    3321    2048      64    5433    1539 drivers/soc/versatile/soc-realview.o
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
>
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
>
> You probably want to funnel this patch through the ARM SoC tree.
>
> (If nothing else works, send as separate patch to arm@kernel.org)
>

OK, I'll do that. I'll add your ACK and CC you.

Thanks!
-- 
Gustavo A. R. Silva