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Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] net: Allow setting the network namespace by fd
From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
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On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 01:51 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Take advantage of the new abstraction and allow network devices
> to be placed in any network namespace that we have a fd to talk
> about.
> 

So ... why just netdevice? could you allow migration of other
net "items" eg a route table since they are all tagged by
netns?

cheers,
jamal