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authorYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>2013-10-18 07:23:17 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-10-18 13:20:43 -0400
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tipc: make bearer and media naming consistent
TIPC 'bearer' exists as an abstract concept, while 'media' is deemed a specific implementation of a bearer, such as Ethernet or Infiniband media. When a component inside TIPC wants to control a specific media, it only needs to access the generic bearer API to achieve this. However, in the current media implementations, the 'bearer' name is also extensively used in media specific function and variable names. This may create confusion, so we choose to replace the term 'bearer' with 'media' in all function names, variable names, and prefixes where this is what really is meant. Note that this change is cosmetic only, and no runtime behaviour changes are made here. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/tipc/bearer.h')
-rw-r--r--net/tipc/bearer.h8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/bearer.h b/net/tipc/bearer.h
index 09c869adcfcf..f800e63980cf 100644
--- a/net/tipc/bearer.h
+++ b/net/tipc/bearer.h
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ struct tipc_bearer;
/**
* struct tipc_media - TIPC media information available to internal users
* @send_msg: routine which handles buffer transmission
- * @enable_bearer: routine which enables a bearer
- * @disable_bearer: routine which disables a bearer
+ * @enable_media: routine which enables a media
+ * @disable_media: routine which disables a media
* @addr2str: routine which converts media address to string
* @addr2msg: routine which converts media address to protocol message area
* @msg2addr: routine which converts media address from protocol message area
@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ struct tipc_media {
int (*send_msg)(struct sk_buff *buf,
struct tipc_bearer *b_ptr,
struct tipc_media_addr *dest);
- int (*enable_bearer)(struct tipc_bearer *b_ptr);
- void (*disable_bearer)(struct tipc_bearer *b_ptr);
+ int (*enable_media)(struct tipc_bearer *b_ptr);
+ void (*disable_media)(struct tipc_bearer *b_ptr);
int (*addr2str)(struct tipc_media_addr *a, char *str_buf, int str_size);
int (*addr2msg)(struct tipc_media_addr *a, char *msg_area);
int (*msg2addr)(const struct tipc_bearer *b_ptr,