netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] IPv6 address labels per namespace

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Message-ID: <483FFB0F.7050303@bull.net>
Date:	Fri, 30 May 2008 15:03:11 +0200
From:	Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ???? 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] IPv6 address labels per namespace - v2

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ???? wrote:
> In article <20080528125137.228283589@...ryb.frec.bull.fr> (at Wed, 28 May 2008 14:51:24 +0200), Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net> says:
> 
>> This pacth makes IPv6 address labels per network namespace.
>> It keeps the global label tables, ip6addrlbl_table, but 
>> adds a 'net' member to each ip6addrlbl_entry.
>> This new member is taken into account when matching labels.
>>
>> Changelog
>> =========
>> * v1: Initial version 
>> * v2:
>>   * Minize the penalty when network namespaces are not configured:
>>       *  the 'net' member is added only if CONFIG_NET_NS is 
>>          defined. This saves space when network namespaces are not 
>>          configured.
>>       * 'net' value is retrieved with the inlined function 
>>          ip6addrlbl_net() that always return &init_net when 
>>          CONFIG_NET_NS is not defined.
>>   * 'net' member in ip6addrlbl_entry renamed to the less generic 
>>     'lbl_net' name (helps code search).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>
> 
> I'm going to apply this.  Thank you.

Great.
Will you apply it to your own IPv6 tree or net-next-2.6?

--Benjamin
> 
> --yoshfuji
> 
> 


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