netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion
It is a frequent mistake to confuse the netlink port identifier with a process identifier. Try to reduce this confusion by renaming fields that hold port identifiers portid instead of pid. I have carefully avoided changing the structures exported to userspace to avoid changing the userspace API. I have successfully built an allyesconfig kernel with this change. Signed-off-by:"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by:
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Showing
- crypto/crypto_user.c 2 additions, 2 deletionscrypto/crypto_user.c
- drivers/net/team/team.c 19 additions, 19 deletionsdrivers/net/team/team.c
- drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c 23 additions, 23 deletionsdrivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c 2 additions, 2 deletionsdrivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c
- drivers/staging/gdm72xx/netlink_k.c 1 addition, 1 deletiondrivers/staging/gdm72xx/netlink_k.c
- fs/dlm/netlink.c 4 additions, 4 deletionsfs/dlm/netlink.c
- include/linux/netlink.h 7 additions, 7 deletionsinclude/linux/netlink.h
- include/net/cfg80211.h 1 addition, 1 deletioninclude/net/cfg80211.h
- include/net/genetlink.h 17 additions, 17 deletionsinclude/net/genetlink.h
- include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.h 16 additions, 16 deletionsinclude/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.h
- include/net/netlink.h 13 additions, 13 deletionsinclude/net/netlink.h
- include/net/nfc/nfc.h 1 addition, 1 deletioninclude/net/nfc/nfc.h
- include/net/xfrm.h 3 additions, 3 deletionsinclude/net/xfrm.h
- kernel/audit.c 10 additions, 10 deletionskernel/audit.c
- kernel/taskstats.c 2 additions, 2 deletionskernel/taskstats.c
- net/bridge/br_fdb.c 3 additions, 3 deletionsnet/bridge/br_fdb.c
- net/bridge/br_netlink.c 1 addition, 1 deletionnet/bridge/br_netlink.c
- net/can/gw.c 1 addition, 1 deletionnet/can/gw.c
- net/core/fib_rules.c 3 additions, 3 deletionsnet/core/fib_rules.c
- net/core/neighbour.c 4 additions, 4 deletionsnet/core/neighbour.c
Please register or sign in to comment