Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] net: wan: Add support for QMC HDLC

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Wed Mar 06 2024 - 11:22:40 EST


On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 16:01:48 +0000 Ratheesh Kannoth wrote:
> > > > + struct qmc_hdlc_desc *desc = context;
> > > > + struct net_device *netdev = desc->netdev;
> > > > + struct qmc_hdlc *qmc_hdlc = netdev_to_qmc_hdlc(netdev);
> > > Reverse xmas tree
> >
> > The reverse xmas tree order cannot be used here.
> > qmc_hdlc depends on netdev, netdev depends on desc.
> >
> ACK. Usually I get comments to split declaration and assignment for
> my patches in upstream.

Yup, that's our general preference, to split the init out of
the definition.