Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: marvell: prestera: use kzalloc_flex

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:16:31 -0700

On Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:21:11 -0700 Rosen Penev wrote:
> Simplify allocation by using a flexible array member in this struct. No
> need to free separately.
> 
> Add __counted_by to get extra runtime analysis. Move counting variable
> assignment to right after allocation as required by __counted_by.

Quoting documentation:

  Clean-up patches
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  Netdev discourages patches which perform simple clean-ups, which are not in
  the context of other work.
  
See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/maintainer-netdev.html#clean-up-patches
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