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Eric Paris 5d30b10bd6 flex_array: flex_array_prealloc takes a number of elements, not an end
Change flex_array_prealloc to take the number of elements for which space
should be allocated instead of the last (inclusive) element. Users
and documentation are updated accordingly.  flex_arrays got introduced before
they had users.  When folks started using it, they ended up needing a
different API than was coded up originally.  This swaps over to the API that
folks apparently need.

Based-on-patch-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Chris Richards <gizmo@giz-works.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.38+]
2011-04-28 16:12:47 -04:00
Jonathan Corbet 1243ba98e3 Update flex_arrays.txt
The 2.6.32 merge window brought a number of changes to the flexible array
API; this patch updates the documentation to match the new state of
affairs.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-10-15 07:25:20 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet 6c19efb46a Document the flex_array library.
A brief document on how to use flexible arrays, derived from an article
first published on LWN.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2009-09-10 14:33:36 -06:00