netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: introduce SO

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Date:   Thu, 10 Jan 2019 17:50:29 +0100
From:   David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: introduce SO_BINDTOIF sockopt

Hi

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 5:38 PM David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/10/19 7:25 AM, David Herrmann wrote:
> > This introduces a new generic SOL_SOCKET-level socket option called
> > SO_BINDTOIF. It behaves similar to SO_BINDTODEVICE, but takes a network
> > interface index as argument, rather than the network interface name.
>
> SO_BINDTOIF is not very descriptive related to SO_BINDTODEVICE.
>
> SO_BINDTOINDEX, SO_BINDTODEVINDEX or SO_BINDTODEVIDX would be clearer
> about this option versus SO_BINDTODEVICE.

I am open for these suggestions. I don't particularly have any
preference on the names, but I agree that BINDTOIF is not very easy to
read. For v2 I will pick SO_BINDTOIFINDEX (as suggested by Roopa),
unless there are any objections.

Thanks!
David