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

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 08:22:30 -0800

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.