Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] docs: networking: document NAPI

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:48:40 -0700

On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:02:21 -0700
Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:16:39 -0700 Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > Did it not stand for New API?  
> 
> I think it did. But we had extra 20 years of software development
> experience and now agree that naming things "new" or "next" is
> a bad idea? So let's pretend it stands for nothing. Or NAPI API ;)

Maybe just a footnote like:
  [1] Was originally referred to as New API in 2.4 Linux.