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Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 22:58:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NETLINK]: Remove references to process ID
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 15:33:43 +1000
> [NETLINK]: Remove references to process ID
>
> People treating the *_pid fields in netlink as a process ID has caused
> endless confusion over the years. The fact that our own netlink.h
> does this only adds to the confusion.
>
> So here is a patch to change the comments to refer to it as the port
> ID which hopefully will make it clear what the purpose of the fields
> really is.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
I so wish we could just rename that thing to "nl_port".
Thanks for the patch, I'll apply this soon.
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