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Date:	Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:12:12 -0500
From:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, cornelia.huck@...ibm.com,
	stern@...land.harvard.edu, kay.sievers@...y.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:21:12 -0500
> Mark Lord <lkml@....ca> wrote:
> 
>> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-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 ?
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