From: Herbert Xu Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 18:42:03 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [NETLINK]: Remove references to process ID X-Git-Tag: v2.6.22-rc1~1014^2~12 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cf130cb102487723bdfc53e4abde1227a7563797;p=linux-2.6 [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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h index f41688f566..2e23353c28 100644 --- a/include/linux/netlink.h +++ b/include/linux/netlink.h @@ -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 */