linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v2 3/4] net: make tcp_cleanup

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Message-ID: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D4579D9@AcuExch.aculab.com>
Date:	Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:38:40 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	'David Miller' <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"dan.j.williams@...el.com" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
CC:	"ncardwell@...gle.com" <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
	"dmaengine@...r.kernel.org" <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>,
	"yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org" <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"jmorris@...ei.org" <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	"kuznet@....inr.ac.ru" <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	"kaber@...sh.net" <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 3/4] net: make tcp_cleanup_rbuf private

From: David Miller
...
> > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:
> >>> net_dma was the only external user so this can become local to tcp.c
> >>> again.
> >> ...
> >>> -void tcp_cleanup_rbuf(struct sock *sk, int copied)
> >>> +static void cleanup_rbuf(struct sock *sk, int copied)
> >>
> >> I would vote to keep the tcp_ prefix. In the TCP code base that is the
> >> more common idiom, even for internal/static TCP functions, and
> >> personally I find it easier to read and work with in stack traces,
> >> etc. My 2 cents.
> >>
> >
> > Ok.  It was cleanup_rbuf() in a former life, but one vote for leaving
> > the name as is is enough for me.
> 
> You can make that two votes :)

I suspect DM adds 2000 votes :-)

Keeping the prefix makes it easier to grep for, and makes it more
obvious that it isn't a generic function (when being called).

	David



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