netdev - Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

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Date:	Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:13:07 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, cornelia.huck@...ibm.com,
	stern@...land.harvard.edu, kay.sievers@...y.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

Mark Lord <lkml@....ca> writes:

> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:21:12 -0500
>> Mark Lord <lkml@....ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
>>>> Sure.  We keep the updated dev_get_by_XXXX that takes a network
>>>> namespace parameter.
>>> ..
>>>
>>> And what should code be passing in when "# CONFIG_NET_NS is not set" ?
>>
>> network drivers probably really really don't want to call
>> dev_get_by_XXX...
> ..
>
> Fine.  But all of them want to call sk_alloc(),

network drivers should be calling sk_alloc less then they should
call dev_get_by_XXXX.  Only protocols call sk_alloc.

> and many want to do register_netdev().

I haven't even touched register_netdev.

> So what should they be using there ?

What are you having problems with?

It is hard to answer specific questions without a context.

Eric
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