Re: [RFC PATCH v5 3/5] can: dev: add CAN XL support

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On Thu. 21 Jul. 2022 at 16:53, Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 21.07.2022 09:36:21, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> > Btw. How should we finally name the 'non data' header of CAN XL?
> >
> > 1. CANXL_HEADER_SIZE
> > 2. CANXL_HEAD_SIZE
> > 3. CANXL_HDR_SIZE
> > 4. CANXL_HDR_SZ <- currently in the patches
> > 5. CANXL_HD_SZ
> >
> > I think it has to be 'head' and not 'header'.
>
> Header! Header is in front of data.

I am also part of the header team! By analogy with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4#Header

> > In skbs we also have head and tail.
>
> Yes, but they point at the head or tail of the buffer allocated with the
> skb.
>
> > So I would vote for 2 or 5 with a tendency to 5.
>
> 3, 1, 4

My top vote goes to:
6. No macro, instead use flexible array member and do sizeof(struct canxl_frame)

I do not like the SZ abbreviation either, so my next choices will be 3 then 1.

To recap: 6, 3, 1.



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