Re: [PATCH] ath9k: decrease size of ath9k.ko

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

On 02/27/2010 10:56 AM, tom.leiming@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
> 
> The patch defines the fields of 'valid_single_stream' and 'valid' in
> struct ath_rate_table as char type, so decrease the size of ath9k.ko
> about 2KB.
> 
> old ath9k.ko
> [tom@tom-lei ath9k]$ size ath9k.ko
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   69344    3080     168   72592   11b90 ath9k.ko
> 
> new ath9k.ko
> [tom@tom-lei ath9k]$ size ath9k.ko
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   67304    3080     168   70552   11398 ath9k.ko
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.h |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.h
> index 4f6d6fd..389168a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.h
> @@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ struct ath_rate_table {
>  	int rate_cnt;
>  	int mcs_start;
>  	struct {
> -		int valid;
> -		int valid_single_stream;
> +		char valid;
> +		char valid_single_stream;
>  		u8 phy;
>  		u32 ratekbps;
>  		u32 user_ratekbps;

Why 'char' rather than 'u8'? To me, the latter implies a small integer, not
character data.

Larry