netdev - Re: [net-next 11/13] igb: Update PTP function names/variables and locations.

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Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:56:27 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	richardcochran@...il.com, matthew.vick@...el.com,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 11/13] igb: Update PTP function names/variables and
 locations.

On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 11:12 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:22:34 -0700
> > On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 08:32 +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 08:02:25PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> >> > Improving code clarity and consistency isn't churn.
> >> This patch series moves code around for no good reason. That is, by
> >> definition, churn.
> > 
> > For your definition of good.
> 
> I think the people doing all of the actual development and
> maintainence of the code get to decide how to define good.  And in
> this case that's basically the Intel NIC development team, not you.

Just for clarity, you do mean Richard's view and not mine.
I agree with these proposed changes.

> Moving functions around is a very valuable and useful cleanup quite
> often.
> 
> So you can count me in on their definition of "good" as well.


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