netdev - Re: [PATCH 05/16] net: Add a network namespace tag to struct net

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Message-Id: <20070912.025709.21916551.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:57:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/16] net: Add a network namespace tag to struct
 net_device

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:18:12 -0600

> 
> Please note that network devices do not increase the count
> count on the network namespace.  The are inside the network
> namespace and so the network namespace tag is in the nature
> of a back pointer and so getting and putting the network namespace
> is unnecessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

Applied to net-2.6.24, thanks.
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