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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mlx4: style: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member.
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 14:28:51 +0800 YANG LI 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].
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
> [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.9/process/
> deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
>
> Signed-off-by: YANG LI <abaci-bugfix@linux.alibaba.com>
> Reported-by: Abaci <abaci@linux.alibaba.com>

This breaks the build with allmodconfig, could you double check?
Are there dependencies?

In file included from drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c:50:
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h:316:27: error: flexible array member in a struct with no named members
316 | struct mlx4_wqe_data_seg data[];
| ^~~~

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