From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 09:54:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120908095441.359df1d1@s6510.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fw6tjb4p.fsf@xmission.com>
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:12:54 -0700
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a
> process identifier. Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields
> that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid.
>
> I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to
> userspace to avoid changing the userspace API.
>
> I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> ---
Ok. I validated that no header file used by iproute2 is affected.
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-08 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-08 6:12 [PATCH] netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-08 16:54 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-09-10 19:31 ` David Miller
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20120908095441.359df1d1@s6510.linuxnetplumber.net \
--to=shemminger@vyatta.com \
--cc=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=ebiederm@xmission.com \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.