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

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Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 11:49:34 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        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 Wed, 13 May 2020 15:43:16 -0300 Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 08:51:50PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > 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!  
> 
> Jakub,
> 
> Please don't take RDMA patches in netdev unless it is a special
> case. There is alot of cross posting and they often get into both
> patchworks.

Sorry about that, I only looked at the subject after applying.