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

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Wed May 13 2020 - 14:49:40 EST


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.