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

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Message-ID: <8738s7l46p.fsf@xmission.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:05:50 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <davem@...emloft.net>, <bcrl@...ck.org>,
	<ravi.mlists@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/2] dev: introduce dev_cleanup_skb()

Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> writes:

> 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'.

skb_scrub_packet sounds good to me.    It has the right connotation
and it is shorter. :)

Eric
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