Re: [patch net-next v3 07/17] rocker: introduce rocker switch driver

tgraf
2014-11-25T21:57:56Z

On 11/25/14 at 09:19am, Scott Feldman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 6:13 AM, David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> wrote:
> > From: Jiri Pirko
> >>
> >> This patch introduces the first driver to benefit from the switchdev
> >> infrastructure and to implement newly introduced switch ndos. This is a
> >> driver for emulated switch chip implemented in qemu:
> >> https://github.com/sfeldma/qemu-rocker/
> >
> > If this driver caller 'rocker' just to get the (bad) pun 'rocker switch'?
> > IMHO A more descriptive name would be a lot better.
>
> Sorry, it's the best we could do since qla3xxx and mlx4 and fm10k were
> already taken.

Given the amount of momentum rocker has created in the cause of
driving this API forward, I find the name quite appropriate.