From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:13:13 -0500
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Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:21:12 -0500
> Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
>
>> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>>> Sure.  We keep the updated dev_get_by_XXXX that takes a network
>>> namespace parameter.
>> ..
>>
>> And what should code be passing in when "# CONFIG_NET_NS is not set" ?
>
> network drivers probably really really don't want to call
> dev_get_by_XXX...
..

Fine.  But all of them want to call sk_alloc(),
and many want to do register_netdev().

So what should they be using there ?

And please STOP trimming the CC list.