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printk: ringbuffer: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Tue, 27 Oct 2020 18:50:19 +0000 (13:50 -0500)
committerGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 21:57:42 +0000 (16:57 -0500)
commita38283da05d321fa1fce38ea3cf41c9f1dbd1f21
tree73c6bdf0064bdeb1cf509a52a9619b0be923b96b
parent7206d58a3a538c80b36305d1904de313cf47ef4c
printk: ringbuffer: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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/v5.9/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c