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From: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net,  netdev@vger.kernel.org,  edumazet@google.com,
  pabeni@redhat.com,  nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com,  jiri@resnulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 7/8] tools: ynl-gen: store recursive nests by a
 pointer
In-Reply-To: <20231213231432.2944749-8-kuba@kernel.org> (Jakub Kicinski's
	message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:14:31 -0800")
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 11:11:57 +0000
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Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> writes:

> To avoid infinite nesting store recursive structs by pointer.
> If recursive struct is placed in the op directly - the first
> instance can be stored by value. That makes the code much
> less of a pain for majority of practical uses.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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