From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] Allow openvswitch to query ports in another netns. Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2017 21:50:05 +0900 (KST) Message-ID: <20171105.215005.784375864325514764.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20171102190438.2583-1-fbl@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dev@openvswitch.org To: fbl@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:45690 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751615AbdKEMuJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Nov 2017 07:50:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20171102190438.2583-1-fbl@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Flavio Leitner Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 17:04:35 -0200 > Today Open vSwitch users are moving internal ports to other namespaces and > although packets are flowing OK, the userspace daemon can't find out basic > information like if the port is UP or DOWN, for instance. > > This patchset extends openvswitch API to retrieve the current netnsid of > a port. It will be used by the userspace daemon to find out in which netns > the port is located. > > This patchset also extends the rtnetlink getlink call to accept and operate > on a given netnsid. More details are available in each patch. Series applied, thanks Flavio.