Re: [PATCH net] drivers/net/wan/hdlc: In hdlc_rcv, check to make sure dev is an HDLC device

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:36:14 -0700 Xie He wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 2:22 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Looks correct to me. I spotted there is also IFF_WAN_HDLC added by
> > 7cdc15f5f9db ("WAN: Generic HDLC now uses IFF_WAN_HDLC private flag.")
> > would using that flag also be correct and cleaner potentially?
> >
> > Up to you, just wanted to make sure you considered it.  
> 
> Oh, Yes! I see IFF_WAN_HDLC is set for all HDLC devices. I also
> searched through the kernel code and see no other uses of
> IFF_WAN_HDLC. So I think we can use IFF_WAN_HDLC to reliably check if
> a device is an HDLC device. This should be cleaner than checking
> ndo_start_xmit.
> 
> Thanks! I'll change this patch to use IFF_WAN_HDLC.

Cool! FWIW when you resend you can also trim the subject to just say:

net: hdlc: In hdlc_rcv, check to make sure dev is an HDLC device

There's no need for the full file path.