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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, arjan@infradead.org
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com,
	stern@rowland.harvard.edu, kay.sievers@vrfy.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:13:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4751DC79.3010408@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4751C238.6010609@rtr.ca>

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:21:12 -0500
> Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
>
>> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>>> Sure.  We keep the updated dev_get_by_XXXX that takes a network
>>> namespace parameter.
>> ..
>>
>> And what should code be passing in when "# CONFIG_NET_NS is not set" ?
>
> network drivers probably really really don't want to call
> dev_get_by_XXX...
..

Fine.  But all of them want to call sk_alloc(),
and many want to do register_netdev().

So what should they be using there ?

And please STOP trimming the CC list.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-01 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-01  9:06 [PATCH 0/10] sysfs network namespace support Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:12 ` [PATCH 01/10] sysfs: Make sysfs_mount static again Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:12   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:13   ` [PATCH 02/10] sysfs: Support for preventing unmounts Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:13     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:16     ` [PATCH 03/10] sysfs: sysfs_get_dentry add a sb parameter Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:16       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:18       ` [PATCH 04/10] sysfs: Implement __sysfs_get_dentry Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:18         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:23         ` [PATCH 05/10] sysfs: Rename Support multiple superblocks Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:23           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:25           ` [PATCH 06/10] sysfs: sysfs_chmod_file handle " Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:25             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:28             ` [PATCH 07/10] sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:28               ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:30               ` [PATCH 08/10] sysfs: Implement sysfs_delete_link and sysfs_rename_link Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:30                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:33                 ` [PATCH 09/10] driver core: Implement tagged directory support for device classes Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:33                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:35                   ` [PATCH 10/10] net: Enable tagging for net_class directories in sysfs Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01  9:35                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 13:10 ` namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL" Mark Lord
2007-12-01 13:13   ` Mark Lord
2007-12-01 19:17   ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-01 19:23     ` Alan Cox
     [not found]       ` <20071201192341.6750fbdb-v58gJUvfdfWUJIigds3554dd74u8MsAO@public.gmane.org>
2007-12-01 19:38         ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-01 19:38           ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-01 19:45           ` Alan Cox
2007-12-01 20:13           ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]             ` <m13aum5g1x.fsf-T1Yj925okcoyDheHMi7gv2pdwda3JcWeAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org>
2007-12-01 20:21               ` Mark Lord
2007-12-01 20:21                 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-01 20:29                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-01 22:12                   ` Mark Lord
2007-12-01 23:13                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 23:24                       ` Jiri Slaby
2007-12-02  1:14                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 23:51                       ` Mark Lord
2007-12-02  1:08                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 20:52                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-01 22:13                 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-12-03  0:02       ` David Schwartz
2007-12-03  0:02         ` David Schwartz
2007-12-03  0:14         ` Alan Cox
2007-12-03  0:14           ` Alan Cox
2007-12-01 19:54     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-02  0:30     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-02  0:30       ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-02  2:02       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-02  3:34       ` Mark Lord
2007-12-02  4:23         ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-02 19:28           ` Ben Greear
2007-12-02 20:03             ` Patrick McHardy
2007-12-02 20:43               ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-02 21:59                 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-12-03  1:14                   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-12-03  8:33                   ` Denis V. Lunev
2007-12-03 17:35               ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-03 18:19                 ` Ben Greear
2007-12-03 18:57                   ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-12-04 15:19                     ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-12-04 18:03                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-04 18:44                       ` Ben Greear
2007-12-04 19:17                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-04 19:35                           ` Ben Greear
2007-12-04 20:09                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-05  6:14                           ` David Miller
2007-12-05  6:01                       ` David Miller
2007-12-04 17:59                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-04 18:57                     ` Ben Greear
2007-12-04 20:01                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-05  6:07                       ` David Miller
2007-12-03  8:24         ` Romano Giannetti
2007-12-03 15:34           ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-03 18:03           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-03 18:13             ` David Miller
2007-12-02 13:51       ` Alan Cox
2007-12-02 19:56         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-12-21  3:07 ` [PATCH 0/10] sysfs network namespace support Greg KH
2007-12-21 13:04   ` Eric W. Biederman

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