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Date:	Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:39:46 +0100
From:	Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@...oo.com>
To:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: update comments of "struct msghdr" with the more accurate RFC3542 ones


Signed-off-by: Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@...oo.com>
---
 include/linux/socket.h |   14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/socket.h b/include/linux/socket.h
index 5d488a6..8e98297 100644
--- a/include/linux/socket.h
+++ b/include/linux/socket.h
@@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ struct linger {
  */
  
 struct msghdr {
-	void	*	msg_name;	/* Socket name			*/
-	int		msg_namelen;	/* Length of name		*/
-	struct iovec *	msg_iov;	/* Data blocks			*/
-	__kernel_size_t	msg_iovlen;	/* Number of blocks		*/
-	void 	*	msg_control;	/* Per protocol magic (eg BSD file descriptor passing) */
-	__kernel_size_t	msg_controllen;	/* Length of cmsg list */
-	unsigned int	msg_flags;
+	void		*msg_name;	/* ptr to socket address structure */
+	int		msg_namelen;	/* size of socket address structure */
+	struct iovec	*msg_iov;	/* scatter/gather array */
+	__kernel_size_t	msg_iovlen;	/* # elements in msg_iov */
+	void		*msg_control;	/* ancillary data */
+	__kernel_size_t	msg_controllen;	/* ancillary data buffer length */
+	unsigned int	msg_flags;	/* flags on received message */
 };
 
 /* For recvmmsg/sendmmsg */
-- 
1.7.10.4

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