On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 16:57 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: > One-element arrays are being deprecated[1]. Replace the one-element > array with a simple value type 'u8 reserved'[2], once this is just > a placeholder for alignment. > > [1] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79 > [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/86 Umm, no, you're misinterpreting this ... This has nothing to do with variable length and isn't used that way. As you can see from your own patch, since you're not changing any users. johannes