netdev - Re: [PATCH] netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion

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Message-ID: <20120908095441.359df1d1@s6510.linuxnetplumber.net>
Date:	Sat, 8 Sep 2012 09:54:41 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion

On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:12:54 -0700
ebiederm@...ssion.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@...ssion.com>
> ---

Ok. I validated that no header file used by iproute2 is affected.

Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

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