netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] sockopt: Change getsockopt() of SO

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Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:58:42 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	brian.haley@...com
Cc:	xemul@...allels.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] sockopt: Change getsockopt() of
 SO_BINDTODEVICE to return an interface name

From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:58:35 -0500

> Instead of having the getsockopt() of SO_BINDTODEVICE return an index, which
> will then require another call like if_indextoname() to get the actual interface
> name, have it return the name directly.
> 
> This also matches the existing man page description on socket(7) which mentions
> the argument being an interface name.
> 
> If the value has not been set, zero is returned and optlen will be set to zero
> to indicate there is no interface name present.
> 
> Added a seqlock to protect this code path, and dev_ifname(), from someone
> changing the device name via dev_change_name().
> 
> v2: Added seqlock protection while copying device name.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>

Brian I was going to apply this, but something about how you email
patches results in them being corrupted.

Go to:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/199732/

Click on Download "mbox", and try to apply that to the net-next tree
to see what I mean.
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