From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/2] dev: introduce dev_cleanup_skb() Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:13:59 +0100 Message-ID: <1372097639.1896.13.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.level5networks.com> References: <87y5ijd98e.fsf@xmission.com> <1372083239-9451-1-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> <1372083239-9451-2-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , , , , To: Nicolas Dichtel Return-path: Received: from webmail.solarflare.com ([12.187.104.25]:37157 "EHLO webmail.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752899Ab3FXSOE (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:14:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1372083239-9451-2-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 16:13 +0200, Nicolas Dichtel wrote: > The goal of this new function is to perform all needed cleanup before sending > an skb into another netns. [...] To 'cleanup' an object often means to destroy or free it. So perhaps you could find an alternate verb that doesn't have that association, e.g. 'sanitise' or 'unmark'. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.