Re[2]: [PATCH 1/2] GPIO: clps711x: Rewrite driver for using generic GPIO code

[Alexander Shiyan]

> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 08:21:39AM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > +static void __init clps711x_add_gpio(void)
> > +{
> > +	const struct resource clps711x_gpio0_res[] = {
> > +		DEFINE_RES_MEM(PADR, SZ_1),
> > +		DEFINE_RES_MEM(PADDR, SZ_1),
> > +	};
...
> which will in itself be a call out to memcpy, or an inlined memcpy.  Now
> do you see why it's wasteful?  You might as well write the thing in that
> way to start with and safe the additional code to copy the structures.
> 
> The other way to do this, which will probably be far more space efficient:
> 
> static phys_addr_t gpio_addrs[][2] = {
> 	{ PADR, PADDR },
> 	{ PBDR, PBDDR },
> ...
> };
> 
> static void __init clps711x_add_gpio(void)
> {
> 	struct resource gpio_res[2];
> 	unsigned i;
> 
> 	gpio_res[0].flags = IORESOURCE_MEM;
> 	gpio_res[1].flags = IORESOURCE_MEM;
> 
> 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(gpio_addrs); i++) {
> 		gpio_res[0].start = gpio_addrs[i][0];
> 		gpio_res[0].end = gpio_res[0].start;
> 		gpio_res[1].start = gpio_addrs[i][1];
> 		gpio_res[1].end = gpio_res[1].start;
> 
> 		platform_device_register_simple("clps711x-gpio", i,
> 					gpio_res, ARRAY_SIZE(gpio_res));
> 	}
> }
> 
> which results in smaller storage and most probably also smaller code size
> too.

Code size (.text) now is 200 bytes, instead of 576 bytes in my version.
I will use code which you suggest. Thanks.

---