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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>,
	James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>,
	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>,
	Pankaj Bharadiya <pankaj.laxminarayan.bharadiya@intel.com>,
	linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: OCTEON: Replace SIZEOF_FIELD() macro
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 16:02:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fbaeb107184c64e9cfa52a416809bc8866e40adc.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201910101545.586BCFC@keescook>

On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 15:46 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> In preparation for switching to a standard sizeof_member() macro to find the
> size of a member of a struct, remove the custom SIZEOF_FIELD() macro and use
> the more common FIELD_SIZEOF() instead. Later patches will globally replace
> FIELD_SIZEOF() and sizeof_field() with the more accurate sizeof_member().

Is the intent to have a single treewide flag day conversion of
FIELD_SIZEOF -> sizeof_member or submit individual patches to
subsystem maintainers?

I don't recall Linus buying in to either mechanism.


      reply	other threads:[~2019-10-10 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-10 22:46 [PATCH] MIPS: OCTEON: Replace SIZEOF_FIELD() macro Kees Cook
2019-10-10 23:02 ` Joe Perches [this message]

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