From: Johannes Berg
> Sent: 24 October 2016 13:56
> On Mon, 2016-10-24 at 14:40 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@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.
Actually, why aren't the structures 'const' ?
You could use a #define to set the .ops and .n_ops fields.
(and maybe .module = THIS_MODULE as well).
David
