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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 22:07:14 +0900 From: Toshiaki Makita <toshiaki.makita1@...il.com> To: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com> Cc: Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp>, kaber@...sh.net, julia.lawall@...6.fr, joe@...ches.com, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] vlan: don't allow vlan device to move between network namespaces On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 16:52 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote: > On 2014/2/28 16:12, Toshiaki Makita wrote: > > (2014/02/28 16:50), Ding Tianhong wrote: > >> Now the vlan device could move to another network namespace, but > >> the read dev is sill in the old network namespace, it is unsafe > >> and the vlan device could not work well, so don't allow to do it. > > > > Why is this a problem? > > This looks like a useful feature to me. > > > > Thanks, > > Toshiaki Makita > > > I think the vlan dev is a virtual device, if it does not with real dev together, > I am not sure whether it is correct. Maybe I miss something, pls remind me. It can be used to aggregate/distribute traffic from/to each namespace. We can use vlan ids as identifiers for namespaces. If there is a problem with this usage, I don't want to disable this feature but want to fix the exact problem. Thanks, Toshiaki Makita -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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