Re: [PATCH net-next] net: rename reference+tracking helpers
From: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Date: 2022-06-08 22:58:38
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On 6/8/22 8:58 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
IMO to encourage use of the track-capable API we could keep their names short and call the legacy functions __netdev_hold() as I mentioned or maybe netdev_hold_notrack().
I like that option. Similar to the old nla_parse functions that were renamed with _deprecated - makes it easier to catch new uses.