netdev - Re: [patch net-next] vlan: Don't allow vlan devices to change network namespaces.

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Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:26:59 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Chen Weilong <chenweilong@...wei.com>
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] vlan: Don't allow vlan devices to change
 network namespaces.

On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 20:43 +0800, Chen Weilong wrote:
> From: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@...wei.com>
> 
> Like bonding, vlan as netdevice doesn't cross netns boundaries.
> 
> Vlan port and vlan itself live in same netns.

Please explain why you believe it should be like that.

bonding and vlan have quite different purpose, so your changelog is
quite obscure.

We had a discussion like this one with macvlan, and prior patch was
rejected.

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