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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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