[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>
diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index f41688f..2e23353 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
{
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 @@
__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 */