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    SubjectRe: drivers/usb/misc/emi*.c have the biggest data objects in the whole tree
    On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 12:34:29PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
    > On Friday 28 September 2007 05:41, Greg KH wrote:
    > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:35:34AM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
    > > > Hi Tapio,
    > > >
    > > > You are the author of these files. Are you still maintaining them?
    > > > If not, do you know who is the current maintainer?
    > > >
    > > > These two object files hold the biggest data objects in the whole Linux kernel
    > > > after lockdep:
    > > >
    > > > text data bss dec hex filename
    > > > 1258 160516 0 161774 277ee ./drivers/usb/misc/emi26.o
    > > > 1504 209296 0 210800 33770 ./drivers/usb/misc/emi62.o
    > > >
    > > > Basically, these are big arrays of the following structures:
    > > >
    > > > typedef struct _INTEL_HEX_RECORD
    > > > {
    > > > __u32 length;
    > > > __u32 address;
    > > > __u32 type;
    > > > __u8 data[MAX_INTEL_HEX_RECORD_LENGTH];
    > > > } INTEL_HEX_RECORD;
    > > >
    > > > I suggest the following optimizations:
    > > >
    > > > Change structure to
    > > >
    > > > typedef struct _INTEL_HEX_RECORD
    > > > {
    > > > __u8 type;
    > > > __u8 length;
    > > > __u16 address;
    > > > __u8 data[MAX_INTEL_HEX_RECORD_LENGTH];
    > > > } INTEL_HEX_RECORD __attribute__((__packed__));
    > >
    > > Only if you redo the whole firmware image too :)
    >
    > I did. It wasn't hard.

    Great, send me a patch then :)

    > > What is this really hurting? It's only relevant if you load the
    > > specific module
    >
    > By this logic, no space wastage in modules is worth fixing.

    No, that's not true. Be realistic here please.

    thanks,

    greg k-h
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