| To: | Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/3] tg3 netpoll hook |
| From: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sat, 04 Oct 2003 23:21:10 -0400 |
| Cc: | Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> |
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Keith Owens wrote: On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 23:11:27 -0400, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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