linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net v5 1/4] ax25: Use kernel universal linked list to implement ax25_dev

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Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 15:43:11 -0400
From: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@...bit.com>
To: Duoming Zhou <duoming@....edu.cn>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-hams@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, kuba@...nel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, 
	jreuter@...na.de, dan.carpenter@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v5 1/4] ax25: Use kernel universal linked list to
 implement ax25_dev_list

On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 03:03:39PM GMT, Duoming Zhou wrote:
>  typedef struct ax25_dev {
> -	struct ax25_dev		*next;
> +	struct list_head	list;

Would it make sense to replace this with:

LIST_HEAD(ax25_dev_list);

And then get rid of:

> +	/* Initialized the list for the first entry */
> +	if (!ax25_dev_list.next)
> +		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ax25_dev_list);

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