netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] net: make tcp_cleanup

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Date:	Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:26:17 -0500
From:	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
To:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:	dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] net: make tcp_cleanup_rbuf private

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:
> net_dma was the only external user so this can become local to tcp.c
> again.
...
> -void tcp_cleanup_rbuf(struct sock *sk, int copied)
> +static void cleanup_rbuf(struct sock *sk, int copied)

I would vote to keep the tcp_ prefix. In the TCP code base that is the
more common idiom, even for internal/static TCP functions, and
personally I find it easier to read and work with in stack traces,
etc. My 2 cents.

neal
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