From: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <[email protected]>,
Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] io_uring: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:38:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220628193320.GA52629@embeddedor>
On 6/28/22 1:33 PM, 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].
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
> [2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays
Thanks for sending this separately. As mentioned out-of-band, we already
have it like this in the io_uring.h header in liburing.
Applied for 5.20.
--
Jens Axboe
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