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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Subject: Re: Move an interface to init_ne
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:28:43 -0600
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David Shwatrz <dshwatrz@gmail.com> writes:

> But when I run "modprobe 8139too" on namespace1, a device named "eth1"
> is created on the initial network namespace and not on namesapce1.
> I expected that in such a case, a device named "eth0" will be created
> on namespace1, since it was called from namespace1. Or maybe modprobe
> does
> not consider the namespace from which it was called ?

modprobe has no concept of the namespace from which it was called.

Eric