netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 02/16] net: dsa: add ports list in the switch fabric

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Date:   Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:00:04 -0400
From:   Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 02/16] net: dsa: add ports list in the switch
 fabric

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:37:40 +0200, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
> > +static struct dsa_port *dsa_port_touch(struct dsa_switch *ds, int index)
> > +{
> > +	struct dsa_switch_tree *dst = ds->dst;
> > +	struct dsa_port *dp;
> > +
> > +	dp = &ds->ports[index];
> > +
> > +	dp->ds = ds;
> > +	dp->index = index;
> > +
> > +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dp->list);
> > +	list_add(&dp->list, &dst->ports);
> > +
> > +	return dp;
> > +}
> 
> Bike shedding, but i don't particularly like the name touch.  How
> about list. The opposite would then be delist, if we ever need it?

The fabric code uses "touch" for "get or create" already, so I used the same
semantics for ports as well. But I'm not strongly attached to this naming
anyway, so I will polish them all together in a future series.


Thanks,
Vivien