linux-kernel - Re: [patch -mm] net namespace: empty framework

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Message-ID: <45648190.20000@fr.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:57:52 +0100
From:	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>
To:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
CC:	Dmitry Mishin <dim@...nvz.org>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch -mm] net namespace: empty framework


> Where is Andrey's patch?

The last I saw was on 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 : 

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=115572448503723&w=2

>> the spirit of uts and ipc namespace (and user namespace if that reaches the
>> kernel one day :) so that's why i made the small changes.
> 
> I agree the namespace frameworks should be consistent, but i don't know
> whether Andrey's is or not.  I'd like to have the framework included so
> we reduce the number of silly rewrites due to clone flag collisions etc.

yes. it is a pain to maintain.

>> It also helping the nsproxy/namespace syscalls to have a similar interface
>> to manipulate namespaces. who knows, soon we might be able to have a 'struct
>> namespace' with a ops field to define new namespace types ?
>>
>> I can also send a empty framework for user namespace  ;)
> 
> Please do - then I'll rebase the patchset I sent to the containes list
> onto your patch, and resubmit the whole userns.

I'll send a refreshed version of both in the next round.

C.

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