From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL" Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 12:29:26 -0800 Message-ID: <20071201122926.5c887588@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <47515D39.9030900@rtr.ca> <20071201111736.297dd99a@freepuppy.rosehill> <20071201192341.6750fbdb@the-village.bc.nu> <20071201113815.5df0960a@freepuppy.rosehill> <4751C238.6010609@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Stephen Hemminger , Alan Cox , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Greg KH , Tejun Heo , Linux Containers , netdev@vger.kernel.org, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, kay.sievers@vrfy.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Herbert Xu , David Miller , Linus Torvalds To: Mark Lord Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:48803 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751282AbXLAUay (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Dec 2007 15:30:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4751C238.6010609@rtr.ca> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:21:12 -0500 Mark Lord wrote: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Stephen Hemminger writes: > > Sure. We keep the updated dev_get_by_XXXX that takes a network > > namespace parameter. > .. > > And what should code be passing in when "# CONFIG_NET_NS is not set" ? network drivers probably really really don't want to call dev_get_by_XXX... in fact no NIC driver in drivers/net does so! Sounds like whatever driver you're looking at has a nasty bug in that it's using non-driver APIs... -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org