netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Add network namespace clone & unshare support.

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Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:28:42 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add network namespace clone & unshare support.

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:12:13 +0200 Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com> wrote:

> > Cedric made a good point that we will have conflicts of code
> > being added to the same place in nsproxy.c and the like.  So
> > I copied Andrew to give him a heads up.
> 
> here's a suggestion,
> 
> we could keep the net namespace unshare patch out of david's tree,
> let andrew merge and release a new -mm and, then, send the net namespace 
> unshare patch to andrew. that should keep nsproxy out of the andrew's 
> merge challenge. But david's tree will miss the unshare part for a while.

This patch only generates two rejects against the current -mm poop pile.
That's insignificant.  We don't need to do anything special to merge a
little patch like this one.

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