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Date:   Fri, 8 May 2020 16:36:42 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Cc:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mlx5: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
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On Thu, 7 May 2020 13:59:35 -0500 Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
> extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
> variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
> introduced in C99:
> 
> struct foo {
>         int stuff;
>         struct boo array[];
> };

Saeed, I'm expecting you to take this and the mlx4 patch via your trees.