netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] packet: rework packet_pick_tx

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Date:   Tue, 19 Mar 2019 06:54:02 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@...el.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Saeed Bishara <saeedb@...zon.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Ariel Elior <aelior@...vell.com>,
        Vishal Kulkarni <vishal@...lsio.com>,
        Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] packet: rework packet_pick_tx_queue() to use
 common code selection



On 03/19/2019 06:25 AM, Paolo Abeni wrote:

> +u16 __netdev_pick_tx(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
> +		     struct net_device *sb_dev)
>  {
>  	struct sock *sk = skb->sk;
>  	int queue_index = sk_tx_queue_get(sk);
> @@ -3729,6 +3729,7 @@ static u16 __netdev_pick_tx(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
>  
>  	return queue_index;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__netdev_pick_tx);
>
I would rather rename this function, now it is going to be used from many drivers.

Maybe the internal core-networking should be renamed as core_netdev_pick_tx()
and the 'fallback' would be named netdev_pick_tx()