On 30/11/2023 9:21 am, Juergen Gross wrote: > Flexible arrays in public headers can be problematic with some > compilers. > > With XEN_FLEX_ARRAY_DIM there is a mechanism available to deal with > this issue, but care must be taken to not change the affected structs > in an incompatible way. > > So bump __XEN_LATEST_INTERFACE_VERSION__ and introduce a new macro > XENPV_FLEX_ARRAY_DIM which will be XENPV_FLEX_ARRAY_DIM with the > interface version being new enough and "1" (the value used today in > the affected headers) when the interface version is an old one. > > Replace the arr[1] instances (this includes the ones seen to be > problematic in recent Linux kernels [1]) with arr[XENPV_FLEX_ARRAY_DIM] > in order to avoid compilation errors. > > [1]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217693 > > Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
CHANGELOG please. This change, however it ends up looking, absolutely needs covering. ~Andrew
