Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sockopt: Change getsockopt() of SO_BINDTODEVICE to return an interface name

From: Brian Haley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:02:25 -0400

On 10/31/2012 04:47 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Brian Haley <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> Instead of having the getsockopt() of SO_BINDTODEVICE return an index, which
>> will then require another call like if_indextoname() to get the actual interface
>> name, have it return the name directly.
>>
>> This also matches the existing man page description on socket(7) which mentions
>> the argument being an interface name.
>>
>> If the value has not been set, zero is returned and optlen will be set to zero
>> to indicate there is no interface name present.
> 
> That will break all existing programs using the return value, right?
> Better to fix the manpage

Dave just accepted the original code for this into net-next last week, so I
don't think it's too late to change it to be correct.

-Brian