Commit cf130cb1 authored by Herbert Xu's avatar Herbert Xu Committed by David S. Miller

[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: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent af7cd373
...@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ struct sockaddr_nl ...@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ struct sockaddr_nl
{ {
sa_family_t nl_family; /* AF_NETLINK */ sa_family_t nl_family; /* AF_NETLINK */
unsigned short nl_pad; /* zero */ unsigned short nl_pad; /* zero */
__u32 nl_pid; /* process pid */ __u32 nl_pid; /* port ID */
__u32 nl_groups; /* multicast groups mask */ __u32 nl_groups; /* multicast groups mask */
}; };
...@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ struct nlmsghdr ...@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ struct nlmsghdr
__u16 nlmsg_type; /* Message content */ __u16 nlmsg_type; /* Message content */
__u16 nlmsg_flags; /* Additional flags */ __u16 nlmsg_flags; /* Additional flags */
__u32 nlmsg_seq; /* Sequence number */ __u32 nlmsg_seq; /* Sequence number */
__u32 nlmsg_pid; /* Sending process PID */ __u32 nlmsg_pid; /* Sending process port ID */
}; };
/* Flags values */ /* Flags values */
......
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