From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/16] net: netlink support for moving devices between network namespaces. Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:57:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070912.045740.71104218.davem@davemloft.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org To: ebiederm@xmission.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-98-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.98]:38220 "EHLO picasso.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764975AbXILL6L (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:58:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:43:44 -0600 > > The simplest thing to implement is moving network devices between > namespaces. However with the same attribute IFLA_NET_NS_PID we can > easily implement creating devices in the destination network > namespace as well. However that is a little bit trickier so this > patch sticks to what is simple and easy. > > A pid is used to identify a process that happens to be a member > of the network namespace we want to move the network device to. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Applied to net-2.6.24, thanks.