From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2 4/4] batman-adv: debugfs: Add netns support
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 04:36:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160420023640.GB13247@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1812177.9NXi5yCt0r@prime>
> we had a phone discussion with Antonio, Marek, Sven and myself how to move
> forward with netlink and namespace support.
>
> We concluded that having proper netlink support would be the more future proof
> option. We would then keep debugfs but slowly phase it out in the next coming
> years. New features would also be adopted in the netlink implementation.
>
> It was also our impression that having the namespace support within netlink
> would be the cleaner approach, although it takes more work because it requires
> the netlink and appropriate userspace changes.
>
> Andrew, what do you think? Would you like to check and rebase on Matthias'
> patchset?
I agree about debugfs. As i already said, i've played with netlink and
netns. I changed my debugfs patch, so that it only creates files for
the default netns. For all other netns, debugfs operations become a
NOP, and you need to use netns.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-20 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-01 21:19 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2 0/4] batman-adv: Add network name space support Andrew Lunn
2016-03-01 21:19 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2 1/4] batman-adv: NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL feature to prevent netns moves Andrew Lunn
2016-03-13 9:29 ` Sven Eckelmann
2016-03-13 15:24 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-04-21 10:48 ` Marek Lindner
2016-03-01 21:19 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2 2/4] batman-adv: Create batman soft interfaces within correct netns Andrew Lunn
2016-03-13 10:48 ` Sven Eckelmann
2016-03-13 15:35 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-03-01 21:19 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2 3/4] batman-adv: Handle parent interfaces in a different netns Andrew Lunn
2016-03-04 12:35 ` Sven Eckelmann
2016-03-07 14:31 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-03-07 14:45 ` Sven Eckelmann
2016-03-11 23:37 ` Sven Eckelmann
2016-03-12 4:42 ` Antonio Quartulli
2016-03-12 7:34 ` Sven Eckelmann
2016-03-12 7:40 ` Sven Eckelmann
2016-03-07 4:21 ` Linus Lüssing
2016-03-07 13:47 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-03-13 11:02 ` Sven Eckelmann
2016-03-13 15:38 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-03-13 15:59 ` Sven Eckelmann
2016-03-01 21:19 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2 4/4] batman-adv: debugfs: Add netns support Andrew Lunn
2016-03-07 14:21 ` Matthias Schiffer
2016-03-13 9:12 ` Sven Eckelmann
2016-03-13 15:42 ` Andrew Lunn
2016-04-18 14:41 ` Simon Wunderlich
2016-04-20 2:36 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2016-04-20 3:23 ` Antonio Quartulli
2016-04-20 7:02 ` Sven Eckelmann
2016-03-14 10:41 ` Matthias Schiffer
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