netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 1/2] af-packet: Added TPACKET

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Date:	Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:58:40 -0400
From:	chetan loke <loke.chetan@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 1/2] af-packet: Added TPACKET_V3 headers.

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:43 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> Applied.
>
> I would suggest, as a follow-up patch, we add some appropriate
> prefixes to these new datastructures added to if_packet.h as
> these are exposed to userspace.
>

Sure.

> For example "hdr_v1", "bd_ts", "bd_header_u", and "block_desc" are
> just asking for namespace conflicts with something other API in
> userspace or the user's own datastructures.
>

Then just to be consistent, I will prefix it with 'tpacket'.

thanks
Chetan Loke
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