Re: [PATCH] spi: aspeed: Replace VLA parameter with flat pointer in calibration helper

Mark Brown <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.ozlabs.lists.openbmc,org.infradead.lists.linux-arm-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-spi,org.ozlabs.lists.linux-aspeed
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On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 06:13:48PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> Mark Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 05:57:08PM +0800, Chin-Ting Kuo wrote:

> > > -			while (k < cols && buf[i][k])
> > > +			while (k < cols && buf[i * cols + k])  

> > This really needs () to make it clear what's going on; the precedence is
> > well defined but not everyone is going to know that off the top of their
> > head.

> Come on, it's multiply and add - everyone is going to get that right.

No, I have to stop and think.  It's not just "what is the rule" it's
also "is that the same rule whoever wrote the code thought there was" -
implicit precedence is the sort of thing that flags up as an alarm bell
when scanning through code.
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