From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752076AbdGRUpb (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:45:31 -0400 Received: from gateway32.websitewelcome.com ([192.185.145.125]:41519 "EHLO gateway32.websitewelcome.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751513AbdGRUpa (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:45:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:45:29 -0500 From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" To: Harish Patil , Manish Chopra , Dept-GELinuxNICDev@cavium.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Subject: [PATCH] qlcnic: remove unnecessary static in qlcnic_dump_fw() Message-ID: <20170718204529.GA11448@embeddedgus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gator4166.hostgator.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - embeddedor.com X-BWhitelist: no X-Source-IP: 189.152.228.197 X-Exim-ID: 1dXZN3-000m2X-Ls X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Source-Sender: (embeddedgus) [189.152.228.197]:55762 X-Source-Auth: gustavo@embeddedor.com X-Email-Count: 18 X-Source-Cap: Z3V6aWRpbmU7Z3V6aWRpbmU7Z2F0b3I0MTY2Lmhvc3RnYXRvci5jb20= X-Local-Domain: yes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Remove unnecessary static on local variable fw_dump_ops. Such variable is initialized before being used, on every execution path throughout the function. The static has no benefit and, removing it reduces the object file size. This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch: @bad exists@ position p; identifier x; type T; @@ static T x@p; ... x = <+...x...+> @@ identifier x; expression e; type T; position p != bad.p; @@ -static T x@p; ... when != x when strict ?x = e; In the following log you can see a difference in the object file size. This log is the output of the size command, before and after the code change: before: text data bss dec hex filename 19032 2136 64 21232 52f0 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_minidump.o after: text data bss dec hex filename 19020 2048 0 21068 524c drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_minidump.o Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva --- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_minidump.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_minidump.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_minidump.c index 0844b7c..afa10a1 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_minidump.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_minidump.c @@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ int qlcnic_fw_cmd_get_minidump_temp(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter) int qlcnic_dump_fw(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter) { struct qlcnic_fw_dump *fw_dump = &adapter->ahw->fw_dump; - static const struct qlcnic_dump_operations *fw_dump_ops; + const struct qlcnic_dump_operations *fw_dump_ops; struct qlcnic_83xx_dump_template_hdr *hdr_83xx; u32 entry_offset, dump, no_entries, buf_offset = 0; int i, k, ops_cnt, ops_index, dump_size = 0; -- 2.5.0