netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 02/10] udp: add gso

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Message-Id: <20180425.165411.2045516859731751233.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:54:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com
Cc:     alexander.duyck@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        dmichail@...gle.com, willemb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 02/10] udp: add gso

From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:51:41 -0400

> I have been itching to rename the UFO flag, though I then find
> SKB_GSO_UFO easier to differentiate from SKB_GSO_UDP
> than SKB_GFO_UDP.
> 
> But, the uapi headers will continue to have
> VIRTIO_NET_HDR_GSO_UDP for UFO, so changing this
> might only further complicate things.

I think changing the name makes things more complicated, exactly
because of all of this other legacy stuff.