From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/16] net: Support multiple network namespaces with netlink Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:06:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070912.040616.38701475.davem@davemloft.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: ebiederm@xmission.com Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:28:27 -0600 > > Each netlink socket will live in exactly one network namespace, > this includes the controlling kernel sockets. > > This patch updates all of the existing netlink protocols > to only support the initial network namespace. Request > by clients in other namespaces will get -ECONREFUSED. > As they would if the kernel did not have the support for > that netlink protocol compiled in. > > As each netlink protocol is updated to be multiple network > namespace safe it can register multiple kernel sockets > to acquire a presence in the rest of the network namespaces. > > The implementation in af_netlink is a simple filter implementation > at hash table insertion and hash table look up time. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Applied to net-2.6.24, thanks.