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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/3] tg3 netpoll hook
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 23:21:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F7F8E26.3080307@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31674.1065323779@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au>

Keith Owens wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 23:11:27 -0400, 
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> 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 ?


Not too bad...   Better than any suggestion of mine, at any rate :)

	Jeff

      reply	other threads:[~2003-10-05  3:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-03  1:45 [RFC] [PATCH 2/3] tg3 netpoll hook Matt Mackall
2003-10-05  2:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-05  2:55   ` Matt Mackall
2003-10-05  3:11     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-05  3:16       ` Keith Owens
2003-10-05  3:21         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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