netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/5] Hide the dead code in the net

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Date:	Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:45:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xemul@...nvz.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] Hide the dead code in the net_namespace.c

From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:28:51 +0300

> The namespace creation/destruction code is never called
> if the CONFIG_NET_NS is n, so it's OK to move it under
> appropriate ifdef.
> 
> The copy_net_ns() in the "n" case checks for flags and
> returns -EINVAL when new net ns is requested. In a perfect
> world this stub must be in net_namespace.h, but this
> function need to know the CLONE_NEWNET value and thus
> requires sched.h. On the other hand this header is to be
> injected into almost every .c file in the networking code,
> and making all this code depend on the sched.h is a
> suicidal attempt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

Applied.
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