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From: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@canonical.com>
To: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	ktkhai@virtuozzo.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
	yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, pombredanne@nexb.com,
	kstewart@linuxfoundation.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	dsahern@gmail.com, fw@strlen.de, lucien.xin@gmail.com,
	jakub.kicinski@netronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] rtnetlink: add IFA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_GETADDR
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 11:32:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180903093221.bxdqw2iwvxli4dhf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d9efff32-4138-5645-c610-7f2051085d7b@6wind.com>

On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 09:50:00AM +0200, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> Le 02/09/2018 à 11:58, Jiri Benc a écrit :
> > On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 20:47:05 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> >> Sorry for the late reply. Yup, sounds good to me.
> >> But maybe IFA_TARGET_NETNSID to indicate that we're talking network
> >> namespaces here? Seems to me that NSID might give the wrong impression.
> >> I'll send v1 soon. I expect tomorrow or sometime next week.
> > 
> > On the other hand, we currently have IFLA_IF_NETNSID for the link
> > operations. IFA_IF_NETNSID is more consistent with the existing
> > attribute. It may be confusing to authors of user space programs to
> > have attribute names doing the same thing constructed differently for
> > different calls (IFLA_IF_NETNSID and IFA_TARGET_NETNSID).
> Yep, I also thought to this. It had sense because it was the link family.
> What about adding an alias (#define IFLA_TARGET_NETNSID IFLA_IF_NETNSID) in the
> uapi to better document this?

Sounds good to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-03  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-28 23:18 [PATCH net-next 0/5] rtnetlink: add IFA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_GETADDR Christian Brauner
2018-08-28 23:18 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] rtnetlink: add rtnl_get_net_ns_capable() Christian Brauner
2018-08-28 23:18 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] if_addr: add IFA_IF_NETNSID Christian Brauner
2018-08-28 23:18 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] ipv4: enable IFA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_GETADDR Christian Brauner
2018-08-28 23:18 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] ipv6: " Christian Brauner
2018-08-30 18:41   ` kbuild test robot
2018-09-03  1:18     ` Christian Brauner
2018-08-28 23:18 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] rtnetlink: move type calculation out of loop Christian Brauner
2018-08-29  8:30 ` [PATCH net-next 0/5] rtnetlink: add IFA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_GETADDR Kirill Tkhai
2018-08-29 18:13   ` Christian Brauner
2018-08-30  8:49     ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-08-30 14:45       ` Christian Brauner
2018-08-30 15:49         ` Nicolas Dichtel
2018-09-01  0:58           ` David Miller
2018-09-01 18:47             ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-02  9:58               ` Jiri Benc
2018-09-03  7:50                 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2018-09-03  9:32                   ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2018-09-01  1:34         ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-03 13:41           ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-09-03 13:50             ` Jiri Benc
2018-09-03 14:53               ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-09-03 14:22             ` Christian Brauner

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