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Date:   Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:46:59 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Jes Sorensen <jes.sorensen@...il.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>, Ulrich Kunitz <kune@...ne-taler.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] zd1211rw/zd_usb.h: Replace zero-length array with
 flexible-array member



On 3/10/20 5:41 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-03-10 at 18:33 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> Again, the changes are not harmful to the code, but add no value.
> 
> That argument asserts that style consistency is value-free.
> I generally disagree with that argument.
> 

If this is a matter of style, then I have already proved (this is in
the changelog text) that the [] style is better than the [0] style:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=76497732932f15e7323dc805e8ea8dc11bb587cf

> But then again, it's likely we will have to agree to disagree.
> 

That's a healthy thing. :)

Thanks
--
Gustavo