From: Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:19:25 +0400
> Currently indexes for netdevices come sequentially one by > one, and the same stays true even for devices that are > created for namespaces. > > Side effects of this are: > * lo device has not 1 index in a namespace. This may break > some userspace that relies on it (and AFAIR something > really broke in OpenVZ VEs without this); > * after some time namespaces will have devices with indexes > like 1000000 os similar. This might be confusing for a > human (tools will not mind). > > So move the (currently "global" and static) ifindex variable > on the struct net, making the indexes allocation look more > like on a standalone machine. > > Moreover - when we have indexes intersect between namespaces, > we may catch more BUGs in the future related to "wrong device > was found for a given index". > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Based upon Eric's and other's comments, I'm holding off on this for now. - 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
