linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: OCTEON: Replace SIZEOF

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Date:   Thu, 10 Oct 2019 16:02:55 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>,
        Pankaj Bharadiya <pankaj.laxminarayan.bharadiya@...el.com>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: OCTEON: Replace SIZEOF_FIELD() macro

On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 15:46 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> In preparation for switching to a standard sizeof_member() macro to find the
> size of a member of a struct, remove the custom SIZEOF_FIELD() macro and use
> the more common FIELD_SIZEOF() instead. Later patches will globally replace
> FIELD_SIZEOF() and sizeof_field() with the more accurate sizeof_member().

Is the intent to have a single treewide flag day conversion of
FIELD_SIZEOF -> sizeof_member or submit individual patches to
subsystem maintainers?

I don't recall Linus buying in to either mechanism.