From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
shemminger@vyatta.com, jarkao2@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Remove redundant NAPI functions
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:40:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231447246.1739.61.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231446610.3893.17.camel@achroite>
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 20:30 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Following the removal of the unused struct net_device * parameter from
> the NAPI functions named *netif_rx_* in commit 908a7a1, they are
> exactly equivalent to the corresponding *napi_* functions and are
> therefore redundant.
[]
> I revisited this to update the out-of-tree version of the sfc driver.
> This makes the *netif_rx_* functions equivalent to the corresponding
> *napi_* functions. So let's finish the job. This is another search-
> and-replace, mostly compile-tested.
napi was just new-api.
Why persist what seems a poor naming choice?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-08 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-08 20:30 [PATCH] net: Remove redundant NAPI functions Ben Hutchings
2009-01-08 20:40 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2009-01-08 20:54 ` David Miller
2009-01-09 14:58 ` Neil Horman
2009-01-10 7:06 ` David Miller
2009-01-12 7:13 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-01-12 14:09 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-01-12 14:46 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-01-12 17:31 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-01-13 0:30 ` David Miller
2009-01-13 1:35 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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