Re: [PATCH] net: Support specifying the network namespace upon device creation.

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:03:02 -0800

> 
> There is no good reason to not support userspace specifying the
> network namespace during device creation, and it makes it easier
> to create a network device and pass it to a child network namespace
> with a well known name.
> 
> We have to be careful to ensure that the target network namespace
> for the new device exists through the life of the call.  To keep
> that logic clear I have factored out the network namespace grabbing
> logic into rtnl_link_get_net.
> 
> In addtion we need to continue to pass the source network namespace
> to the rtnl_link_ops.newlink method so that we can find the base
> device source network namespace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks!