Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 0/9] introduce rocker switch driver with hardware accelerated datapath api

From: Florian Fainelli <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 22:37:35 -0700

On 09/19/14 07:20, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 04:15:32PM CEST, [email-masked] wrote:
>> From: Jiri Pirko
>>> This patchset can be divided into 3 main sections:
>>> - introduce switchdev api for implementing switch drivers
>>> - introduce switchdev generic netlink api for userspace manipulation
>>> - introduce rocker switch driver which implements switchdev api
>>
>> Perhaps you should be including the name of what you are switching
>> in the name of the API?
>>
>> Is this for interfacing to ethernet switches, TDM switches or
>> mechanical ones?
>> It isn't really clear from any of these commit messages.
>
> I thought that is isn't necessary, that it is clear this is about ethernet
> switches.
>

How about putting some of this code in net/ethernet/* to make very very 
obvious this is what this thing is about?
--
Florian