Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename struct net to struct netns

From: Daniel Lezcano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:59:26 +0200

Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> The name struct net is too generic. There already were
> some people who wanted to have some better name (for
> easier grep for example). I propose the struct netns one.
> 
> The patch is (already) huge (sorry), but it's nothing but
>   sed -e s/struct net\>/struct netns/g
> 
> If this name is bad as well, let's select a new one
> before the struct net floods the kernel.

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> --- a/include/linux/nsproxy.h
> +++ b/include/linux/nsproxy.h
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ struct nsproxy {
>  	struct mnt_namespace *mnt_ns;
>  	struct pid_namespace *pid_ns;
>  	struct user_namespace *user_ns;
> -	struct net 	     *net_ns;
> +	struct netns 	     *net_ns;

IMHO, if we want to be consistent with all the rest of the namespaces, 
that should be net_namespace.

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