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

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Message-ID: <18793.15953.591733.958862@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Date:	Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:33:21 +1100
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, 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

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?

Paul.
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