linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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Date:   Fri, 28 Feb 2020 23:49:21 -0500
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Cc:     Satish Kharat <satishkh@...co.com>,
        Sesidhar Baddela <sebaddel@...co.com>,
        Karan Tilak Kumar <kartilak@...co.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Brian King <brking@...ibm.com>,
        Intel SCU Linux support <intel-linux-scu@...el.com>,
        Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@...el.com>,
        Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@...adcom.com>,
        Chaitra P B <chaitra.basappa@...adcom.com>,
        Suganath Prabu Subramani 
        <suganath-prabu.subramani@...adcom.com>,
        Lee Duncan <lduncan@...e.com>, Chris Leech <cleech@...hat.com>,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...adcom.com, open-iscsi@...glegroups.com,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member


Gustavo,

> The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
> extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
> variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array
> member[1][2], introduced in C99:

Applied to 5.7/scsi-queue, thanks.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering