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Date:   Mon, 24 Jul 2023 12:18:25 +0200
From:   Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] page_pool: split types and declarations from
 page_pool.h

From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 18:29:42 -0700

> On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 17:51:17 +0200 Alexander Lobakin wrote:
>>>> More specificly, yon means the below, right?
>>>> include/net/page_pool.h
>>>> include/net/page_pool/types.h  
>>>
>>> Yes.  
>>
>> What I meant is
>>
>> include/net/page_pool/types.h
>> include/net/page_pool/driver.h
>>
>> I'm not insisting, just to be clear :)
> 
> I thought we already talked about naming headers after the user :S
> Unless you're _defining_ a driver in driver.h that's not a good name.
> types.h, helpers.h, functions.h, dma.h are good names.

Ah, sure :) I was mostly talking about

include/net/page_pool.h
include/net/page_pool/types.h

vs

include/net/page_pool/helpers.h (or functions.h)
include/net/page_pool/types.h

I.e. whether to have a header with the same name next to the folder or
place everything in that folder.

Thanks,
Olek