Re: [PATCH] phy: qualcomm: usb-hs-28nm: use flex array

[Konrad Dybcio]

On 3/5/26 5:52 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On 3/5/26 19:06, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>> On 3/5/26 12:06 AM, Rosen Penev wrote:
>>> Allows simplifying allocation to a single kzalloc call.
>>>
>>> Also allows using __counted_by for extra runtime analysis.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>
>> I don't see how this is an improvement - __counted_by() is useful for
>> cases where we don't know how many entries there are, but in this
>> case it's fully deterministic (as priv->num_clks is a compile-time
>> constant)
> 
> Will this always be the case in the future (entries being a compile-time
> constant)?

While I'm not high up enough to make those decisions, and if I were, I
would very much not be allowed to disclose them, my personal prediction
is that we are probably not going to make many more 28nm chips, if any
(see filename)

Konrad