[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] flow: Add helper to zero padding of flow

[Simon Horman]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:03:17AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 08:57:08AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 01:31:08PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > The sole purpose of this change is to avoid sparse warnings
> > > about memset of zero length in the case where the zero field
> > > of struct flow is zero bytes long, as is the case after
> > > "Remove mpls_depth field from flow".
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
> > > 
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > This patch could trivially be: applied as-is; trivially up-dated
> > > so that it can be applied before "Remove mpls_depth field from flow."
> > > which would also need to be trivially updated; or dropped entirely.
> > > I am equally comfortable with any of those options.
> > 
> > Previously when we've needed no padding we've just deleted the 'zeros'
> > member entirely.  I think that's what I'd prefer this time too.
> 
> Oh and I'd prefer to see that done as part of patch 1.

Sure, no problem.