Commit cf130cb1 authored May 05, 2007 by Herbert Xu Committed by David S. Miller May 05, 2007

[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>

parent af7cd373

include/linux/netlink.h

+2 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ struct sockaddr_nl
		{
		sa_family_t nl_family; /* AF_NETLINK */
		unsigned short nl_pad; /* zero */
		__u32 nl_pid; /* process pid */
		__u32 nl_pid; /* port ID */
		__u32 nl_groups; /* multicast groups mask */
		};

		@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ struct nlmsghdr
		__u16 nlmsg_type; /* Message content */
		__u16 nlmsg_flags; /* Additional flags */
		__u32 nlmsg_seq; /* Sequence number */
		__u32 nlmsg_pid; /* Sending process PID */
		__u32 nlmsg_pid; /* Sending process port ID */
		};

		/* Flags values */

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