Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Remove redundant NAPI functions

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:40:46 -0800

On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 20:30 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Following the removal of the unused struct net_device * parameter from
> the NAPI functions named *netif_rx_* in commit 908a7a1, they are
> exactly equivalent to the corresponding *napi_* functions and are
> therefore redundant.

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> I revisited this to update the out-of-tree version of the sfc driver.
> This makes the *netif_rx_* functions equivalent to the corresponding
> *napi_* functions.  So let's finish the job.  This is another search-
> and-replace, mostly compile-tested.

napi was just new-api.
Why persist what seems a poor naming choice?