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Message-ID: <20190724114120.GT363@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 24 Jul 2019 04:41:21 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>
Cc:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "hch@....de" <hch@....de>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] net: Rename skb_frag_t size to bv_len

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 10:49:03AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> This is 'just plain stupid'.
> The 'bv_' prefix of the members of 'struct bvec' is there so that 'grep'
> (etc) can be used to find the uses of the members.
> 
> In a 'struct skb_frag_struct' a sensible prefix might be 'sf_'.
> 
> OTOH it might be sensible to use (or embed) a 'struct bvec'
> instead of 'skb_frag_struct'.

Maybe you should read patch 7/7.  Or 0/7.

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