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

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wh-Ym=onfkMyMmOZUr6cFGQUD8kMowX6OcE-A-H2efkMg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 8 May 2020 10:26:40 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efi: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 12:22 PM Gustavo A. R. Silva
<gustavoars@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> 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 [...]

Why is this called an "efi" patch, when it doesn't appear to be so at all:

>  include/linux/dma/ti-cppi5.h                   |    4 ++--
>  include/linux/efi.h                            |    2 +-
>  include/linux/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-message.h     |    2 +-
>  include/linux/platform_data/cros_ec_commands.h |    4 ++--
>  include/linux/platform_data/cros_ec_proto.h    |    2 +-
>  kernel/params.c                                |    2 +-
>  kernel/tracepoint.c                            |    2 +-
>  scripts/kallsyms.c                             |    2 +-
>  8 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Yes, one line of the patch is EFI code. The rest are not.

                Linus