netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: Xmit Packet Steering (XPS)

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Date:	Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:43:34 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: Xmit Packet Steering (XPS)

On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 22:35 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Jarek Poplawski a écrit :
> > There is one more problem: this will break things like act_mirred + ifb,
> > and other cases using skb->iif e.g. for filtering on virtual devices at
> > the xmit path.
> Following patch might help us to locate real uses of this obscure field :)
> [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: rename skb->iif to skb->skb_iif

Prefixing member names generally doesn't end well.
Prefixing selected member names? ick.

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