netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next] libbpf: make DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS macro strictly a variable declaration

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Date:   Tue, 22 Oct 2019 21:38:50 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>
Cc:     bpf@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, ast@...com,
        andrii.nakryiko@...il.com, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next] libbpf: make DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS macro
 strictly a variable declaration

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:21:00AM -0700, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> LIBBPF_OPTS is implemented as a mix of field declaration and memset
> + assignment. This makes it neither variable declaration nor purely
> statements, which is a problem, because you can't mix it with either
> other variable declarations nor other function statements, because C90
> compiler mode emits warning on mixing all that together.
> 
> This patch changes LIBBPF_OPTS into a strictly declaration of variable
> and solves this problem, as can be seen in case of bpftool, which
> previously would emit compiler warning, if done this way (LIBBPF_OPTS as
> part of function variables declaration block).
> 
> This patch also renames LIBBPF_OPTS into DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS to follow
> kernel convention for similar macros more closely.
> 
> v1->v2:
> - rename LIBBPF_OPTS into DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS (Jakub Sitnicki).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>

Applied, thanks!