Re: [PATCH 1/3] flex_array: flex_array_prealloc takes a number ofelements, not an end

[Dave Hansen]

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 21:45 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Based-on-patch-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>

Perhaps add this to the description?

flex_arrays got introduced before they had users.  When folks started
using it, they ended up needing a different API than we coded up
originally.  This swaps over to the API that folks apparently need.

Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Dave

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