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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:51:50 -0600 From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, devel@...nvz.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][NETNS] Make ifindex generation per-namespace Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> writes: > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 11:41 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> So please hold off on this until the kernel has been audited and >> we have removed all of the uses of ifindex that assume ifindex is >> global, that we can find. > > I certainly have this assumption in the wireless code (cfg80211). How > would I go about removing it? Are netlink sockets per-namespace so I can > use the namespace of the netlink socket to look up a netdev? Yes. Netlink sockets are per-namespace and you can use the namespace of a netlink socket to look up a netdev. Eric - 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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