Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] mailbox: mediatek: Add mtk-vcp-mailbox driver

["Jjian Zhou (周建)" <Jjian.Zhou@mediatek.com>]

On Tue, 2025-09-23 at 08:11 -0500, Jassi Brar wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM Jjian Zhou (周建) <
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> > On Thu, 2025-09-18 at 18:50 -0500, Jassi Brar wrote:
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> > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM Jjian Zhou <
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> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > .....
> > > 
> > > > +#include <linux/module.h>
> > > > +#include <linux/of.h>
> > > > +#include <linux/platform_device.h>
> > > > +#include <linux/slab.h>
> > > > +
> > > > +struct mtk_vcp_mbox_priv {
> > > 
> > > Maybe 'mtk_vcp_mbox' is a more appropriate name ?
> > > 
> > > > +       void __iomem *base;
> > > > +       struct device *dev;
> > > > +       struct mbox_controller mbox;
> > > > +       const struct mtk_vcp_mbox_cfg *cfg;
> > > > +       struct mtk_ipi_info ipi_recv;
> > > 
> > > Maybe also have "struct mbox_chan chan[1]; " so that you don't
> > > have
> > > to
> > > allocate one during the probe.
> > > Also if you have  "struct mbox_controller mbox;" as the first
> > > member,
> > > you could simply typecast that to get this structure.
> > > Something like "struct mpfs_mbox" in mailbox-mpfs.c
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > ERROR:FLEXIBLE_ARRAY: Use C99 flexible arrays - see
> > 
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.kernel.org/process/deprecated.html*zero-length-and-one-element-arrays__;Iw!!CTRNKA9wMg0ARbw!kLlX71HetZwXMZ9UmdtvMEKKykbZINIUNVW5nLVfoztdkSJMlaa3QfbzZxGKIkSgqmHHc2Lvfwpj4URsOVCtekNCFh5L$
> > #81: FILE: drivers/mailbox/mtk-vcp-mailbox.c:24:
> > +       struct mbox_chan chans[1];
> > +};
> > 
> > Can we ignore this error?
> > 
> 
> It seems single element style is deprecated. While we know what we
> are
> doing, let us placate that error by
>        struct mbox_chan mch;
>        struct mbox_chan chans[];
> and set  chans = &mch

Do you have any specific considerations for suggesting this approach?
Wo
uld it be sufficient to just define a 'struct mbox_chan chans'?