netdev - Re: [PATCH] nfp: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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Date:   Fri, 4 Dec 2020 16:01:22 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Louis Peens <louis.peens@...ronome.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com,
        "Gustavo A . R . Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfp: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
 member

On Fri,  4 Dec 2020 13:56:01 +0100 Simon Horman wrote:
> There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare having a
> dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. Kernel code
> should always use "flexible array members"[1] for these cases. The older
> style of one-element or zero-length arrays should no longer be used[2].
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
> [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.9/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
> 
> Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
> Signed-off-by: Louis Peens <louis.peens@...ronome.com>

Applied, thank you!