linux-kernel - Re: [patch -mm] net namespace: empty framework

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Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:41:54 -0600
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
To:	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Dmitry Mishin <dim@...nvz.org>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch -mm] net namespace: empty framework

Quoting Cedric Le Goater (clg@...ibm.com):
> Hello,
> 
> Dmitry Mishin wrote:
> 
> > This patch looks acceptable for us.
> 
> good. shall we merge it then ? see comment below.
> 
> > BTW, Daniel, we agreed to be based on the Andrey's patchset. I do not see a
> > reason, why Cedric force us to make some unnecessary work and move existent
> > patchset over his interface.
> 
> yeah it's a bit different from andrey's but not that much and it's more in

Where is Andrey's patch?

> the spirit of uts and ipc namespace (and user namespace if that reaches the
> kernel one day :) so that's why i made the small changes.

I agree the namespace frameworks should be consistent, but i don't know
whether Andrey's is or not.  I'd like to have the framework included so
we reduce the number of silly rewrites due to clone flag collisions etc.

> 
> It also helping the nsproxy/namespace syscalls to have a similar interface
> to manipulate namespaces. who knows, soon we might be able to have a 'struct
> namespace' with a ops field to define new namespace types ?
> 
> I can also send a empty framework for user namespace  ;)

Please do - then I'll rebase the patchset I sent to the containes list
onto your patch, and resubmit the whole userns.

-serge
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