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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next 0/5] rtnetlink: add IFA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_GETADDR
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Le 02/09/2018 à 11:58, Jiri Benc a écrit :
> On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 20:47:05 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
>> Sorry for the late reply. Yup, sounds good to me.
>> But maybe IFA_TARGET_NETNSID to indicate that we're talking network
>> namespaces here? Seems to me that NSID might give the wrong impression.
>> I'll send v1 soon. I expect tomorrow or sometime next week.
>
> On the other hand, we currently have IFLA_IF_NETNSID for the link
> operations. IFA_IF_NETNSID is more consistent with the existing
> attribute. It may be confusing to authors of user space programs to
> have attribute names doing the same thing constructed differently for
> different calls (IFLA_IF_NETNSID and IFA_TARGET_NETNSID).
Yep, I also thought to this. It had sense because it was the link family.
What about adding an alias (#define IFLA_TARGET_NETNSID IFLA_IF_NETNSID) in the
uapi to better document this?

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