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Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] SCSI: fusion: mpi_ioc.h: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:00:36 -0500, 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].
> 
> Also, this helps with the ongoing efforts to enable -Warray-bounds by
> fixing the following warning:
> 
> [...]

Applied to 5.13/scsi-queue, thanks!

[1/1] SCSI: fusion: mpi_ioc.h: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/ed46ccc7fe76

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering