On 12 September 2014 00:04, Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koe...@pengutronix.de> wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:04:31PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: >> /* Mux parent lists. */ >> -static const char *fin_pll_p[] __initconst = { >> +static const char *fin_pll_p[] __initdata = { >> "xxti", >> "xusbxti" >> }; > As discussed with Tomasz on irc: The sad thing here is that for this > array only 8 bytes are freed when .init.rodata is thrown away (that is > two pointers). The actual data---5 + 8 bytes + maybe aligning---isn't > freed though. > > We wondered if there is a nice and easy way to throw away the > characters, too. > > The only way I currently see is: > > const char xxti[] __initconst = "xxti"; > ... > > static const char *fin_pll_p[] __initdata = { > xxti, > ... > }; > > but this definitively doesn't qualify as "nice and easy". Is there an > alternative? >
What about doing static const char fin_pll_p[][8] __initconst = { "xxti", "xusbxti" }; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html