On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 17:57 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 14:56 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 16:48 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 14:20 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > Is moving constant string formats to __devinitconst or __initdata > > > > useful for embedded environments? > > > Interesting notion, but not worth the trouble in my mind. I think it's > > > more worthwhile to look into automatic such stuff in the build somehow. > > I think it's not possible today to get gcc to mark > > the format strings without source modification. > Yep, that's why I specifically said 'build'. It can probably be done in > a post-processing step with some ELF wizardry.
Know any elven wizards? > > It's pretty easy to script a source conversion. > > And that script has to be run how often? Once. > I don't think people will find > the churn (and general extra ugliness) acceptable. For a typical > stripped-down embedded kernel, the amount of gain here will be fairly > minimal. I'd be surprised if you got as much as 1K out of it. Got a typical config that uses printks I could try? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
