From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] debloat aic7xxx and aic79xx drivers
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:20:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708312220.36818.vda.linux@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31870.1188577642@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Friday 31 August 2007 17:27, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:13:59 BST, Denys Vlasenko said:
> >
> > text data bss dec hex filename
> > 261433 50018 1172 312623 4c52f linux-2.6.23-rc1.org.t/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/built-in.o
> > 199654 50018 1172 250844 3d3dc linux-2.6.23-rc1.aic.t/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/built-in.o
> > 184014 21314 1172 206500 326a4 linux-2.6.23-rc1.aic1.t/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/built-in.o
> > 202378 2850 1172 206400 32640 linux-2.6.23-rc1.aic2.t/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/built-in.o
> >
> > 1-debloat.patch deinlines a lot of functions
> > 2-addstatic.patch adds statics, #ifdefs out huge amount of unused code, adds consts
> > 3-addconst.patch adds more consts
>
> Yowza. Looking at aic1->aic2, it looks like 20K became 'const', and only
> 3K *wasn't* 'const'?
Exactly. There are firmware images/patches and a lot of structures
with char* members pointing to text/messages.
Btw, aic94xx driver needs the same treatment.
--
vda
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-31 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-31 15:13 [PATCH 0/3] debloat aic7xxx and aic79xx drivers Denys Vlasenko
2007-08-31 15:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Denys Vlasenko
2007-08-31 15:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] " Denys Vlasenko
2007-08-31 15:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] " Denys Vlasenko
2007-09-24 10:24 ` Hannes Reinecke
2007-09-24 10:23 ` [PATCH 2/3] " Hannes Reinecke
2007-09-24 10:16 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Hannes Reinecke
2007-08-31 16:27 ` [PATCH 0/3] " Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-08-31 21:20 ` Denys Vlasenko [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-14 14:58 Denys Vlasenko
2007-10-14 17:47 ` Gabriel C
2007-10-15 11:25 ` Denys Vlasenko
2007-10-16 22:01 ` Gabriel C
2007-10-15 13:53 ` Gabriel C
2007-10-18 11:19 ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-03-23 3:40 Denys Vlasenko
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