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
prev parent 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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