All the modules name are ro-data, it is never copied to the array.
eg.
static struct cpuidle_driver intel_idle_driver = {
.name = "intel_idle",
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
};
It safe to assign the pointer of this ro-data to a const char *.
By this way we save 12 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezc...@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deep...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deep...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
include/linux/cpuidle.h | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/cpuidle.h b/include/linux/cpuidle.h
index ca4e498..f7f1d90 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpuidle.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpuidle.h
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static inline int cpuidle_get_last_residency(struct
cpuidle_device *dev)
****************************/
struct cpuidle_driver {
- char name[CPUIDLE_NAME_LEN];
+ const char *name;
struct module *owner;
unsigned int power_specified:1;
--
1.7.5.4
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