netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] rtnetlink: add IFA_IF_NETNSID for RTM

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Date:   Mon, 3 Sep 2018 09:50:00 +0200
From:   Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To:     Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...onical.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, ktkhai@...tuozzo.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        pombredanne@...b.com, kstewart@...uxfoundation.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, dsahern@...il.com, fw@...len.de,
        lucien.xin@...il.com, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] rtnetlink: add IFA_IF_NETNSID for
 RTM_GETADDR

Le 02/09/2018 à 11:58, Jiri Benc a écrit :
> On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 20:47:05 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
>> Sorry for the late reply. Yup, sounds good to me.
>> But maybe IFA_TARGET_NETNSID to indicate that we're talking network
>> namespaces here? Seems to me that NSID might give the wrong impression.
>> I'll send v1 soon. I expect tomorrow or sometime next week.
> 
> On the other hand, we currently have IFLA_IF_NETNSID for the link
> operations. IFA_IF_NETNSID is more consistent with the existing
> attribute. It may be confusing to authors of user space programs to
> have attribute names doing the same thing constructed differently for
> different calls (IFLA_IF_NETNSID and IFA_TARGET_NETNSID).
Yep, I also thought to this. It had sense because it was the link family.
What about adding an alias (#define IFLA_TARGET_NETNSID IFLA_IF_NETNSID) in the
uapi to better document this?