linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xmon: use ARRAY_SIZE on various array sizing calculations

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Date:   Fri, 08 Dec 2017 22:51:50 +1100
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
        Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        "open list\:LINUX FOR POWERPC \(32-BIT AND 64-BIT\)" 
        <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xmon: use ARRAY_SIZE on various array sizing calculations

Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>>
>> Use the ARRAY_SIZE macro on several arrays to determine their size.
>> Improvement suggested by coccinelle.
>
> This file is taken from binutils and re-licensed. Keeping the file
> as-is helps apply newer patches easily on top as opposed to redoing
> the changes. I would prefer not to move to ARRAY_SIZE and stick to
> what's already in the file.

Yep.

Thanks but no thanks on this one Colin.

Is there a checkpatch blacklist anywhere? So we don't keep discovering
things in this file that need to be fixed?

cheers