netdev - Re: [RFC 4/4] net: ppp_generic - introduce net-namespace functionality

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Message-Id: <20090110.233912.19825434.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:39:12 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paulus@...ba.org
Cc:	gorcunov@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org, xemul@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 4/4] net: ppp_generic - introduce net-namespace
 functionality

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:33:21 +1100

> Cyrill Gorcunov writes:
> 
> > From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
> > Subecjt: [RFC] net: ppp_generic - introduce net-namespace functionality
> > 
> > - Each namespace contain ppp channels and units separately
> >   with appropriate locks
> 
> This looks like a lot of uglification to me.  Why exactly do
> individual network drivers need to know or care about namespaces?

They need to know if there is a lookup involved and the device
type internally has it's own realm of keys that identify such
devices.

PPP fits that particular case.
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