Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:19:48 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][next] hpilo: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member |
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:44:49AM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: > There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare > having a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. > Kernel code should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these > cases. The older style of one-element or zero-length arrays should > no longer be used[2]. > > For this particular case, it is important to notice that the cachelines > change from 7 to 6 after the flexible-array conversion:
That's really funny to see. Nice work, I'll go queue this up. I doubt anyone will notice as this is a very old driver :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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