Re: [patch net-next v3 04/17] net: introduce generic switch devices support

Jiri Pirko
2014-11-27T13:50:53Z

Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 02:32:32PM CET, jhs@mojatatu.com wrote:
>On 11/27/14 08:03, Thomas Graf wrote:
>
>>So what is your name suggestion?
>>
>
>I would have gone for _offload_ either as a prefix or suffix
>somewhere.

$ git grep offload net
Wouldn't it be confusing to add this another different "offload". That's
just confusing.

I still like "switch" the best. If it passes packets around, it's a
"switch", +-. Everybody understand what's going on if you use "switch".
If you use "offload", everybody is confused...

>
>cheers,
>jamal