On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Eric Paris wrote:

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> > > Getting and putting arrays of pointers with flex arrays is a PITA.  You
> > > have to remember to pass &ptr to the _put and you have to do weird and
> > > wacky casting to get the ptr back from the _get.  Add two functions
> > > flex_array_get_ptr() and flex_array_put_ptr() to handle all of the magic.
> > > 
> > 
> > There's no code currently in the tree that uses the flex array interface, 
> > so is this something that you've encountered in practice or only by 
> > inspection?  If it's the former, is that code on its way for 2.6.36?
> 
> I did decide to use flex_arrays on code intended for .36
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6.git;a=commitdif...
> 

Great, a user!  I'm hoping that more people will adopt this interface but 
I can't think of anything that could currently be converted.  Maybe we can 
find opportunities in patches as they're proposed to the list.

Thanks.
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