From: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
To: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, ovs-dev@openvswitch.org,
Ian Stokes <ian.stokes@intel.com>,
Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] flex-array: allow arrays of unions with flexible members.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 01:15:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201007231554.d3vgykhycm3pcezg@ltop.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201007115234.1482603-1-i.maximets@ovn.org>
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 01:52:34PM +0200, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> The actual code in question that makes sparse fail
> OVS build could be found here:
> https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/39fbd2c3f0392811689ec780f09baf90faceb877/lib/netdev-linux.c#L1238
I'm impressed and surprised you're using of includes just for Sparse.
I also see that this is since 2011. Just for my curiosity, have
you an idea for why exactly this was needed and if it is still
really needed?
-- Luc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-07 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-07 11:52 [PATCH] flex-array: allow arrays of unions with flexible members Ilya Maximets
2020-10-07 23:09 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2020-10-08 6:36 ` Ilya Maximets
2020-10-09 15:39 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2020-10-07 23:15 ` Luc Van Oostenryck [this message]
2020-10-08 9:13 ` Ilya Maximets
2020-10-08 10:04 ` Ilya Maximets
2020-10-09 16:01 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
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