Re: [PATCH] netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion

On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:12:54 -0700
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

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" <redacted>
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Ok. I validated that no header file used by iproute2 is affected.

Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <redacted>