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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: joe@perches.com
Cc: bhutchings@solarflare.com, 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 12:54:58 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090108.125458.198312862.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231447246.1739.61.camel@localhost>

From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:40:46 -0800

> napi was just new-api.
> Why persist what seems a poor naming choice?

Maybe because "NAPI" has been ingrained into everyone's skull for the
past 10+ years?

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-08 20:54 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
2009-01-08 20:54   ` David Miller [this message]
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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