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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:21:06 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net V2 2/3] net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode
 with inconsistent netns
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:24:33 +0300 Tariq Toukan wrote:
> If the PF's netns has been moved and differs from the devlink's netns,
> enabling switchdev mode would create a state where the OVS control
> plane (ovs-vsctl) cannot manage the switch because the PF uplink
> representor and the other representors are split across different
> namespaces.

I appreciate the extra paragraph of explanation but it's still not 
a fix.