netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/2] dev: introduce dev_cleanup

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Date:	Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:13:59 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<ebiederm@...ssion.com>, <bcrl@...ck.org>, <ravi.mlists@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/2] dev: introduce dev_cleanup_skb()

On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 16:13 +0200, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> The goal of this new function is to perform all needed cleanup before sending
> an skb into another netns.
[...]

To 'cleanup' an object often means to destroy or free it.  So perhaps
you could find an alternate verb that doesn't have that association,
e.g. 'sanitise' or 'unmark'.

Ben.

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