netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Remove redundant NAPI functions

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Date:	Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:40:46 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>, shemminger@...tta.com,
	jarkao2@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Remove redundant NAPI functions

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 20:30 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Following the removal of the unused struct net_device * parameter from
> the NAPI functions named *netif_rx_* in commit 908a7a1, they are
> exactly equivalent to the corresponding *napi_* functions and are
> therefore redundant.

[]

> I revisited this to update the out-of-tree version of the sfc driver.
> This makes the *netif_rx_* functions equivalent to the corresponding
> *napi_* functions.  So let's finish the job.  This is another search-
> and-replace, mostly compile-tested.

napi was just new-api.
Why persist what seems a poor naming choice?


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