netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 6/8] tools: ynl-gen: re-sort ignoring recursive nests

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Message-ID: <m2le9x3unm.fsf@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 11:12:13 +0000
From: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net,  netdev@...r.kernel.org,  edumazet@...gle.com,
  pabeni@...hat.com,  nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com,  jiri@...nulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 6/8] tools: ynl-gen: re-sort ignoring recursive
 nests

Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> writes:

> We try to keep the structures and helpers "topologically sorted",
> to avoid forward declarations. When recursive nests are at play
> we need to sort twice, because structs which end up being marked
> as recursive will get a full set of forward declarations, so we
> should ignore them for the purpose of sorting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>