netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Support specifying the network namespace upon device creation.

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Date:	Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:54:07 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Support specifying the network namespace upon
 device creation.

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:03:02 -0800

> 
> There is no good reason to not support userspace specifying the
> network namespace during device creation, and it makes it easier
> to create a network device and pass it to a child network namespace
> with a well known name.
> 
> We have to be careful to ensure that the target network namespace
> for the new device exists through the life of the call.  To keep
> that logic clear I have factored out the network namespace grabbing
> logic into rtnl_link_get_net.
> 
> In addtion we need to continue to pass the source network namespace
> to the rtnl_link_ops.newlink method so that we can find the base
> device source network namespace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks!
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