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author | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2007-05-05 14:42:03 -0400 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2007-05-05 14:42:03 -0400 |
commit | cf130cb102487723bdfc53e4abde1227a7563797 (patch) | |
tree | 8a62c0bf9d31c6b33184cd71a278aa2a5b2598d8 | |
parent | af7cd373b01ccb8191dc16c77fff4cf2b11def50 (diff) |
[NETLINK]: Remove references to process ID
People treating the *_pid fields in netlink as a process ID has caused
endless confusion over the years. The fact that our own netlink.h
does this only adds to the confusion.
So here is a patch to change the comments to refer to it as the port
ID which hopefully will make it clear what the purpose of the fields
really is.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netlink.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h index f41688f56632..2e23353c28a5 100644 --- a/include/linux/netlink.h +++ b/include/linux/netlink.h | |||
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ struct sockaddr_nl | |||
31 | { | 31 | { |
32 | sa_family_t nl_family; /* AF_NETLINK */ | 32 | sa_family_t nl_family; /* AF_NETLINK */ |
33 | unsigned short nl_pad; /* zero */ | 33 | unsigned short nl_pad; /* zero */ |
34 | __u32 nl_pid; /* process pid */ | 34 | __u32 nl_pid; /* port ID */ |
35 | __u32 nl_groups; /* multicast groups mask */ | 35 | __u32 nl_groups; /* multicast groups mask */ |
36 | }; | 36 | }; |
37 | 37 | ||
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ struct nlmsghdr | |||
41 | __u16 nlmsg_type; /* Message content */ | 41 | __u16 nlmsg_type; /* Message content */ |
42 | __u16 nlmsg_flags; /* Additional flags */ | 42 | __u16 nlmsg_flags; /* Additional flags */ |
43 | __u32 nlmsg_seq; /* Sequence number */ | 43 | __u32 nlmsg_seq; /* Sequence number */ |
44 | __u32 nlmsg_pid; /* Sending process PID */ | 44 | __u32 nlmsg_pid; /* Sending process port ID */ |
45 | }; | 45 | }; |
46 | 46 | ||
47 | /* Flags values */ | 47 | /* Flags values */ |