From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: paulus@samba.org
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, devel@openvz.org, xemul@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 4/4] net: ppp_generic - introduce net-namespace functionality
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:39:12 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090110.233912.19825434.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18793.15953.591733.958862@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:33:21 +1100
> Cyrill Gorcunov writes:
>
> > From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
> > Subecjt: [RFC] net: ppp_generic - introduce net-namespace functionality
> >
> > - Each namespace contain ppp channels and units separately
> > with appropriate locks
>
> This looks like a lot of uglification to me. Why exactly do
> individual network drivers need to know or care about namespaces?
They need to know if there is a lookup involved and the device
type internally has it's own realm of keys that identify such
devices.
PPP fits that particular case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-11 7:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090109195154.320495476@gmail.com>
2009-01-09 19:51 ` [RFC 1/4] net: pppoe - code cleanup and helpers Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-09 19:51 ` [RFC 2/4] net: pppoe - introduce net-namespace functionality Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-09 19:51 ` [RFC 3/4] net: pppol2tp " Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-10 11:06 ` James Chapman
2009-01-10 11:13 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-10 12:54 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-10 13:13 ` James Chapman
2009-01-10 15:05 ` James Chapman
2009-01-10 15:19 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-10 16:12 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-10 18:14 ` James Chapman
2009-01-10 18:51 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-11 7:36 ` David Miller
2009-01-09 19:51 ` [RFC 4/4] net: ppp_generic " Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-10 9:22 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-10 9:28 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-11 0:33 ` Paul Mackerras
2009-01-11 7:39 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-01-11 7:46 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-11 8:25 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-01-11 11:20 Herbert Xu
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