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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use bitfields for module flags
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 23:52:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704212352.51983.lenb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1177164527570-git-send-email-hmh@hmh.eng.br>

On Saturday 21 April 2007 10:08, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Use a bitfield to hold boolean module-wide flags, to conserve some memory.
> It is easy and it is clean, so we do it just for the heck of it even if it
> saves very little space.

I think that is an under-statement.
This plus the patch before it actually increase text size
for a static size change of 0.

-Len

before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  24002    3286     728   28016    6d70 drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.o

after
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  24082    3270     664   28016    6d70 drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.o





  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-22  4:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-21 14:08 [GIT PULL] prepare thinkpad-acpi for sysfs conversion Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
     [not found] ` <11771645253042-git-send-email-hmh-N3TV7GIv+o9fyO9Q7EP/yw@public.gmane.org>
2007-04-21 14:08   ` [PATCH 01/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: rename register_ibmacpi_subdriver Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08   ` [PATCH 02/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: rename one stray use of ibm-acpi in a comment Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08   ` [PATCH 03/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: rename module glue Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08   ` [PATCH 06/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add debug mode Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08   ` [PATCH 07/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: clean up probing and move init to subdrivers Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08   ` [PATCH 08/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add subdriver debug statements Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08   ` [PATCH 10/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: improve thinkpad detection Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08   ` [PATCH 12/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use bitfields for module flags Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-22  3:52     ` Len Brown [this message]
2007-04-22 18:56       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08   ` [PATCH 13/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: prepare for device model conversion Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08   ` [PATCH 14/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: mark acpi helper functions __must_check Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08   ` [PATCH 15/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: clean up hotkey subdriver Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08   ` [PATCH 16/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: cleanup bluetooth and wan for sysfs conversion Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08   ` [PATCH 17/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: cleanup video subdriver Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08   ` [PATCH 18/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: clean up CMOS commands subdriver Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08   ` [PATCH 19/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: cleanup thermal subdriver for sysfs conversion Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08   ` [PATCH 20/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: improve fan watchdog messages Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08 ` [PATCH 04/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: rename thinkpad constants Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08 ` [PATCH 05/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: update fan firmware documentation Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08 ` [PATCH 09/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: uncouple subdriver init from ibms struct Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-22  3:40   ` Len Brown
2007-04-22 18:45     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-21 14:08 ` [PATCH 11/20] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use bitfields to hold subdriver flags Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-04-22  3:57 ` [GIT PULL] prepare thinkpad-acpi for sysfs conversion Len Brown
2007-04-22 18:57   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

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