On Tue, 17 May 2022 15:33:02 -0400 Alexander Aring wrote: > > Could not we move to an union of pointers in the future since in many > > cases a network device can only have one of those pointers at any given > > time? > > note that ieee802154 has also functionality like __dev_get_by_index() > and checks via "if (netdev->ieee802154_ptr)" if it's a wpan interface > or not, guess the solution would be like it's done in wireless then. Ack, but that code must live somewhere under #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IEEE802154) || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_6LOWPAN) otherwise I think I'd see a build failure. I guess a nice thing about having the typed pointers is that we can depend on the compiler for basic checking :)
