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From: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add network namespace clone & unshare support.
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:56:04 +0200
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:12:13 +0200 Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Cedric made a good point that we will have conflicts of code
>>> being added to the same place in nsproxy.c and the like.  So
>>> I copied Andrew to give him a heads up.
>> here's a suggestion,
>>
>> we could keep the net namespace unshare patch out of david's tree,
>> let andrew merge and release a new -mm and, then, send the net namespace 
>> unshare patch to andrew. that should keep nsproxy out of the andrew's 
>> merge challenge. But david's tree will miss the unshare part for a while.
> 
> This patch only generates two rejects against the current -mm poop pile.
> That's insignificant.  We don't need to do anything special to merge a
> little patch like this one.

Thanks Andrew.

C.