linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

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Date:   Sat, 9 May 2020 23:43:08 +0000
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
To:     "kuba@...nel.org" <kuba@...nel.org>
CC:     "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>,
        "gustavoars@...nel.org" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

On Fri, 2020-05-08 at 16:36 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 7 May 2020 13:59:35 -0500 Gustavo A. R. Silva 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:
> > 
> > struct foo {
> >         int stuff;
> >         struct boo array[];
> > };
> 
> Saeed, I'm expecting you to take this and the mlx4 patch via your
> trees.

Yes for the mlx5 patch, but usually Dave takes mlx4 patches directly.

since the volume of mlx4 patches is very small, let's apply them
directly to net-next, unless you want me to handle them from now on and
make your life easier, then i don't have any issue with that.

Saeed.