linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] wil6210: Avoid the use of one-element array

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Date:   Wed, 22 Jul 2020 21:40:43 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        Maya Erez <merez@...eaurora.org>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, wil6210@....qualcomm.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] wil6210: Avoid the use of one-element array

On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 16:57 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> One-element arrays are being deprecated[1]. Replace the one-element
> array with a simple value type 'u8 reserved'[2], once this is just
> a placeholder for alignment.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
> [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/86

Umm, no, you're misinterpreting this ... This has nothing to do with
variable length and isn't used that way. As you can see from your own
patch, since you're not changing any users.

johannes