From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:24:21 -0600
> > Except for carefully selected pseudo devices all network > interfaces should start out in the initial network namespace. > Ultimately it will be register_netdev that examines what > dev->nd_net is set to and places a device in a network namespace. > > This patch modifies alloc_netdev to initialize the network > namespace a device is in with the initial network namespace. > This gets it right for the vast majority of devices so their > drivers need not be modified and for those few pseudo devices > that need something different they can change this parameter > before calling register_netdevice. > > The network namespace parameter on a network device is not > reference counted as the devices are inside of a network namespace > and cannot remain in that namespace past the lifetime of the > network namespace. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied to net-2.6.24, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
