From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] net: Make the loopback device per network namespace
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:11:11 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070926.221111.67579385.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17imdrn8r.fsf_-_@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:00:20 -0600
>
> This patch makes loopback_dev per network namespace. Adding
> code to create a different loopback device for each network
> namespace and adding the code to free a loopback device
> when a network namespace exits.
>
> This patch modifies all users the loopback_dev so they
> access it as init_net.loopback_dev, keeping all of the
> code compiling and working. A later pass will be needed to
> update the users to use something other than the initial network
> namespace.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Applied to net-2.6.24, thanks Eric.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 5:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-26 23:53 [PATCH 1/4] net: Dynamically allocate the per cpu counters for the loopback device Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-26 23:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] net ipv4: Remove unnecessary test for the loopback device from inetdev_destroy Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-26 23:58 ` [PATCH 3/4] net ipv4: When possible test for IFF_LOOPBACK and not dev == loopback_dev Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27 0:00 ` [PATCH 4/4] net: Make the loopback device per network namespace Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27 5:11 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-09-27 12:14 ` [Devel] " Denis V. Lunev
2007-09-27 16:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27 5:10 ` [PATCH 3/4] net ipv4: When possible test for IFF_LOOPBACK and not dev == loopback_dev David Miller
2007-09-27 10:34 ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-09-27 16:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27 5:09 ` [PATCH 2/4] net ipv4: Remove unnecessary test for the loopback device from inetdev_destroy David Miller
2007-09-27 5:09 ` [PATCH 1/4] net: Dynamically allocate the per cpu counters for the loopback device David Miller
2007-09-27 7:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27 18:52 ` David Miller
2007-09-27 20:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27 20:56 ` David Miller
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