On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 at 14:49, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> IOW, I'd *start* with something like the attached, and then build on that..
Key word being "something like". I just checked, and that suggested
patch will cause build issues in lib/test_printf.c, because it does
things like
.d_iname = "foo"
and it turns out that doesn't work when it's a flex-array.
It doesn't have to be a flex array, of course - it could easily just
continue to use DNAME_INLINE_LEN (now just defined in terms of "words
* sizeof*(unsigned long)").
I did that flex array thing mainly to see if somebody ends up
depending on the array as such. Clearly that test_printf.c code does
exactly that, but looks like nothing else is.
Linus
