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Date:   Mon, 16 Jan 2023 22:37:18 -0800
From:   Doug Brown <doug@...morgal.com>
To:     Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@...ltek.com>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>,
        Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>,
        "libertas-dev@...ts.infradead.org" <libertas-dev@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] wifi: libertas: fix capitalization in mrvl_ie_data
 struct

On 1/16/2023 7:39 PM, Ping-Ke Shih wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Doug Brown <doug@...morgal.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 4:21 AM
>> To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>; David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>; Eric Dumazet
>> <edumazet@...gle.com>; Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>; Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
>> Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>; Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>;
>> libertas-dev@...ts.infradead.org; linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org; netdev@...r.kernel.org; Doug Brown
>> <doug@...morgal.com>
>> Subject: [PATCH v3 1/4] wifi: libertas: fix capitalization in mrvl_ie_data struct
>>
>> This struct is currently unused, but it will be used in future patches.
>> Fix the code style to not use camel case.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Doug Brown <doug@...morgal.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/types.h | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/types.h
>> b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/types.h
>> index cd4ceb6f885d..398e3272e85f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/types.h
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/types.h
>> @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ struct mrvl_ie_header {
>>
>>   struct mrvl_ie_data {
>>   	struct mrvl_ie_header header;
>> -	u8 Data[1];
>> +	u8 data[1];
> 
> data[]. see [1]
> 
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Hi Ping-Ke,

Thanks for the link. There are several other cases of this same syntax
for flexible trailing arrays in this file, so I will update this patch
in the next version of the series to fix them all.

> 
>>   } __packed;
>>
>>   struct mrvl_ie_rates_param_set {
>> --
>> 2.34.1
>