linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] staging: vt6656: Use ARRAY

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Date:   Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:22:25 +0100
From:   Oscar Carter <oscar.carter@....com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Quentin Deslandes <quentin.deslandes@...ev.co.uk>
Cc:     Oscar Carter <oscar.carter@....com>,
        Forest Bond <forest@...ttletooquiet.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@...il.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Gabriela Bittencourt <gabrielabittencourt00@...il.com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: vt6656: Use ARRAY_SIZE instead of hardcoded
 size

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 09:19:24AM +0000, Quentin Deslandes wrote:
> On 03/24/20 16:18:30, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > That's a bit over engineering something which is pretty trivial.
> > Normally, we would just make the size a define instead of a magic number
> > 14.
>
> My bad, I meant "define", not "macro".
>
> > If people change the size in the future (unlikely) and it causes a bug
> > then they kind of deserve it because they need to ensure all the new
> > stuff is initialized, right?  If they change it and it results in a
> > buffer overflow then static checkers would complain.  If they changed it
> > and it resulted in uninitialized data being used then it would be zero
> > so that's okay.
>
> I wasn't sure where I should stand on this, that's clearer now.
>
> Thanks,
> Quentin

Dan and Quentin, thanks for your time to review my work, and make comments.

oscar carter