From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Denis V. Lunev" Subject: Re: My netns patches updated to Linus' latest Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:25:39 +0400 Message-ID: <469F6653.5000004@sw.ru> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Linux Containers List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: > My next project is most likely going to be to dig in and make the > loopback device a normal network device (not statically allocated) > as a cleanup in preparation for the network namespace work. I can do this :) As far as I understand the code, loopback device is used in two fashions: - as a real network device - and as a "stable" never freed piece of memory I presume, they should be separated. As for device itself, there is a some sort of a template in a Pavel's virtual ethernet device driver... > Feel free to pick the patches apart. Especially in the core of the > network stack. I think that a small plan of submitting process is a good idea, at least we will be able to coordinate the efforts and work in parallel. > I'm hoping to start seriously submitting patches short after the merge > window closes. So we can get a long test/review cycle. :) Regards, Den