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

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:19:38 -0700

On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:48:40 -0700 Stephen Hemminger 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.

👌️ let me find out how to make a footnote in sphinx