Re: [PATCH] efi: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 12:22 PM Gustavo A. R. Silva
<gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 [...]

Why is this called an "efi" patch, when it doesn't appear to be so at all:

>  include/linux/dma/ti-cppi5.h                   |    4 ++--
>  include/linux/efi.h                            |    2 +-
>  include/linux/mailbox/zynqmp-ipi-message.h     |    2 +-
>  include/linux/platform_data/cros_ec_commands.h |    4 ++--
>  include/linux/platform_data/cros_ec_proto.h    |    2 +-
>  kernel/params.c                                |    2 +-
>  kernel/tracepoint.c                            |    2 +-
>  scripts/kallsyms.c                             |    2 +-
>  8 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Yes, one line of the patch is EFI code. The rest are not.

                Linus