From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Lezcano Subject: Re: [RFC] [patch 0/6] [Network namespace] introduction Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:21:43 +0200 Message-ID: <449866E7.4050508@fr.ibm.com> References: <20060609210202.215291000@localhost.localdomain> <20060618184734.GB27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, serue@us.ibm.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, clg@fr.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from mtagate5.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.154]:26193 "EHLO mtagate5.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751115AbWFTVVs (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:21:48 -0400 To: Al Viro In-Reply-To: <20060618184734.GB27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:02:02PM +0200, dlezcano@fr.ibm.com wrote: > - renaming an interface in one "namespace" affects everyone. Exact. If we ensure the interface can't be renamed if used in different namespace, is it really a problem ?