From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/3] tg3 netpoll hook Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 13:16:19 +1000 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <31674.1065323779@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> References: <3F7F8BDF.5000903@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Matt Mackall , netdev@oss.sgi.com, Andrew Morton Return-path: To: Jeff Garzik In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 04 Oct 2003 23:11:27 -0400." <3F7F8BDF.5000903@pobox.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 23:11:27 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >Matt Mackall wrote: >> Have an opinion on s/->poll_controller/->netpoll/? >I don't like either name, but don't have any better suggestions either, >besides something extremely verbose like ->process_hw_events(). > >"poll_controller" is annoying because (a) it's way too close to NAPI, >but (b) it's a reasonably accurate description of what it does. > >I think "netpoll" is even worse... It describes who calls it, not what >it does. ->polled_io ?