[ovs-dev] [PATCH v4 01/12] ofproto: Rename *_begin functions as *_start.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 05:24:08PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
> Weirdest things can bother you at night when you try to sleep ;-)
> 
> Now we have function triples such as add_flow_begin(),
> add_flow_finish(), and add_flow_revert(), where a modification is
> started in *_begin(), which can fail, and when successful can be
> either made permanent with *_finish(), or cancelled with *_revert().
> 
> Linguistically it should be either "begin/end" or "start/finish", not
> "begin/finish".  "begin/end" has some C++ STL baggage, so let's go
> with "start/finish".  IMO "revert" rhymes with it, too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme at nicira.com>

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>