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Date:	Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:42:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xemul@...nvz.org
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename struct net to struct netns

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:46:07 +0400

> The name struct net is too generic. There already were
> some people who wanted to have some better name (for
> easier grep for example). I propose the struct netns one.

I don't see any reason to change the name, 'net' is just
fine with me.  It's in the struct/union namespace so even
if you use a variable or a function with the same name
it's unambiguous.

If C would allow it we'd be using 'if' instead of 'netdevice'
as well :-)
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