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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v3 04/17] net: introduce generic switch devices
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:50:50 +0100
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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