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From: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 07/13] libxl: convert
 libxl_device_nic_add to an async operation
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:30:07 +0100
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Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 10:53 +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>> Ian Jackson wrote:
>>> Roger Pau Monne writes ("Re: [PATCH v6 07/13] libxl: convert libxl_device_nic_add to an async operation"):
>>>> Ian Jackson wrote:
>>>>> Should we rename the functions libxl_*nic* or the structures *vif* ?
>>>>> Or should we rename both, to "net" perhaps ?
>>>> I think we should either rename the strucutres to nic also (because the
>>>> also hold ioemu cards), or get rid of nic/vif an name everything net.
>>> Can you try to rename everything to `net' and see if that turns out to
>>> be an impenetrable yak ?
>> I think it is much more easy to rename everything to nic, which provides
>> the same level of abstraction from my PoV. Renaming everything to net
>> it's a rather very big change. Would you be ok with that change?
>
> I'd be happy with nic, I think it fits better with libxl_device_disk
> anyway. (if it were libxl_device_net would be more analogous to
> libxl_device_storage or something)

Done, I've added a pre-patch to rename every *vif* to nic.