Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] rtnetlink: add IFA_IF_NETNSID for RTM_GETADDR

[Christian Brauner]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 09:50:00AM +0200, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> Le 02/09/2018 Ã 11:58, Jiri Benc a ÃcritÂ:
> > 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?

Sounds good to me.