netdev - Re: [PATCH] can: use sock_efree instead of own destructor

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Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2015 05:22:23 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>
Cc:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	mkl@...gutronix.de,
	"linux-can@...r.kernel.org" <linux-can@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] can: use sock_efree instead of own destructor

On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 07:14 +0100, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:

> the other callers use it in the same way so it's a good simplification.
> Btw. the name of sock_efree() is a bit misleading - nothing is free'd here.
> 
> Won't it be better to rename sock_efree(skb) with sock_put_skb(skb) or 
> something like that? sock_efree() has no comment why it's named like this.

I would prefer name stays as is. It eases searches in changelogs to not
change function names unless really needed, for backports and code
maintenance.


# git log | grep sock_efree
    net: merge cases where sock_efree and sock_edemux are the same function
    Since sock_efree and sock_demux are essentially the same code for non-TCP
    In addition I have added a destructor named sock_efree which is meant to

sock_efree was added in commit 62bccb8cdb69051b95a55ab0c489e3cab261c8ef

I guess Alexander chose the name close to sock_edemux() and sock_rfree() ones.

This makes sense to me at least.

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