netdev - Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx4: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

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Date:   Sat, 9 May 2020 20:51:50 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc:     Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx4: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

On Thu, 7 May 2020 13:59:21 -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[];
> };
>
> ...

Applied, thank you!