From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:31:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20120910.153142.112339451501543835.davem@davemloft.net> References: <87fw6tjb4p.fsf@xmission.com> <20120908095441.359df1d1@s6510.linuxnetplumber.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:32831 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758347Ab2IJTbo (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:31:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20120908095441.359df1d1@s6510.linuxnetplumber.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 09:54:41 -0700 > 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" >> --- > > Ok. I validated that no header file used by iproute2 is affected. > > Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Applied to net-next, thanks.