On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 06:54:51AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 12:40:37PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Solve two ergonomic issues with struct seq_buf;
> > 
> > 1) Too much boilerplate is required to initialize:
> > 
> >     struct seq_buf s;
> >     char buf[32];
> > 
> >     seq_buf_init(s, buf, sizeof(buf));
> > 
> > Instead, we can build this directly on the stack. Provide
> > DECLARE_SEQ_BUF() macro to do this:
> > 
> >     DECLARE_SEQ_BUF(s, 32);
> 
> DECLARE_SEQ_BUF_ONSTACK maybe?  But otherwise this looks like a good
> concept.

It's usable for globals too... also it's a shorter name as-is. :)

-- 
Kees Cook

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