Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH net-next 00/21] treewide: Use consistent api style for address testing

(cc list trimmed) On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 11:55 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:04:14 +0200 > Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > Yes they are some names discrepancies, thats a big deal. > > > > And we have alloc_skb() / kfree_skb() / skb_clone() > > > > Why not skb_alloc() / skb_free

Re: [PATCH net-next 00/21] treewide: Use consistent api style for address testing

(trimmed over long cc list from original 00/21 post) On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 09:04 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 20:55 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > ethernet, ipv4, and ipv6 address testing uses 3 different api naming styles. > > > > ethernet uses: is__ether_addr > > ipv4

[PATCH net-next 00/21] treewide: Use consistent api style for address testing

ethernet, ipv4, and ipv6 address testing uses 3 different api naming styles. ethernet uses: is__ether_addr ipv4 uses: ipv4_is_ ipv6 uses: ipv6_addr_ Standardize on the ipv6 style of _addr_ to reduce the number of styles to remember. The new consistent styles are: eth_addr_(const u8 *