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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] genetlink: statically initialize families
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:55:33 +0200
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On Mon, 2016-10-24 at 14:40 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> 
> Instead of providing macros/inline functions to initialize
> the families, make all users initialize them statically and
> get rid of the macros.
> 
> This reduces the kernel code size by about 1.6k on x86-64
> (with allyesconfig).

Actually, with the new system where it's not const, I could even split
this up and submit per subsystem, i.e. the fourth patch doesn't depend
on it. I thought it would, since I wanted to make it const, but since I
failed it doesn't actually have that dependency.

johannes