[PATCH v1] docs: networking: can: change bcm_msg_head frames member to support flexible array
From: Alex Tran <hidden>
Date: 2025-09-04 03:17:20
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linux-can, lkml
Subsystem:
can network layer, documentation, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Oliver Hartkopp, Marc Kleine-Budde, Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
The documentation of the 'bcm_msg_head' struct does not match how
it is defined in 'bcm.h'. Changed the frames member to a flexible array,
matching the definition in the header file.
See commit 94dfc73e7cf4 ("treewide: uapi: Replace zero-length arrays with
flexible-array members")
Bug 217783 <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217783>
Signed-off-by: Alex Tran <redacted>
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Documentation/networking/can.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/can.rst b/Documentation/networking/can.rst
index bc1b585355f7..7650c4b5be5f 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/can.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/can.rst@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ The broadcast manager sends responses to user space in the same form: struct timeval ival1, ival2; /* count and subsequent interval */ canid_t can_id; /* unique can_id for task */ __u32 nframes; /* number of can_frames following */ - struct can_frame frames[0]; + struct can_frame frames[]; }; The aligned payload 'frames' uses the same basic CAN frame structure defined
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