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

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Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:31:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 09:54:41 -0700

> 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>

Applied to net-next, thanks.
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