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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] staging: vt6656: Use ARRAY_SIZE instead of hardcoded size
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 09:19:24AM +0000, Quentin Deslandes wrote:
> On 03/24/20 16:18:30, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > That's a bit over engineering something which is pretty trivial.
> > Normally, we would just make the size a define instead of a magic number
> > 14.
>
> My bad, I meant "define", not "macro".
>
> > If people change the size in the future (unlikely) and it causes a bug
> > then they kind of deserve it because they need to ensure all the new
> > stuff is initialized, right? If they change it and it results in a
> > buffer overflow then static checkers would complain. If they changed it
> > and it resulted in uninitialized data being used then it would be zero
> > so that's okay.
>
> I wasn't sure where I should stand on this, that's clearer now.
>
> Thanks,
> Quentin

Dan and Quentin, thanks for your time to review my work, and make comments.

oscar carter

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