From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@sw.ru>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Devel] [PATCH 4/4] net: Make the loopback device per network namespace
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:14:41 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FB9EB1.5070908@sw.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17imdrn8r.fsf_-_@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> This patch makes loopback_dev per network namespace. Adding
> code to create a different loopback device for each network
> namespace and adding the code to free a loopback device
> when a network namespace exits.
>
> This patch modifies all users the loopback_dev so they
> access it as init_net.loopback_dev, keeping all of the
> code compiling and working. A later pass will be needed to
> update the users to use something other than the initial network
> namespace.
A pity that an important bit of explanation is missed. The
initialization of loopback_dev is moved from a chain of devices
(init_module) to a subsystem initialization to keep proper order, i.e.
we must be sure that the initialization order is correct.
Regards,
Den
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-27 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-26 23:53 [PATCH 1/4] net: Dynamically allocate the per cpu counters for the loopback device Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-26 23:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] net ipv4: Remove unnecessary test for the loopback device from inetdev_destroy Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-26 23:58 ` [PATCH 3/4] net ipv4: When possible test for IFF_LOOPBACK and not dev == loopback_dev Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27 0:00 ` [PATCH 4/4] net: Make the loopback device per network namespace Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27 5:11 ` David Miller
2007-09-27 12:14 ` Denis V. Lunev [this message]
2007-09-27 16:48 ` [Devel] " Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27 5:10 ` [PATCH 3/4] net ipv4: When possible test for IFF_LOOPBACK and not dev == loopback_dev David Miller
2007-09-27 10:34 ` Daniel Lezcano
2007-09-27 16:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27 5:09 ` [PATCH 2/4] net ipv4: Remove unnecessary test for the loopback device from inetdev_destroy David Miller
2007-09-27 5:09 ` [PATCH 1/4] net: Dynamically allocate the per cpu counters for the loopback device David Miller
2007-09-27 7:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27 18:52 ` David Miller
2007-09-27 20:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27 20:56 ` David Miller
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