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

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Message-ID: <20090111112019.GA29691@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:20:19 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	paulus@...ba.org
Cc:	gorcunov@...il.com, 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

Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org> wrote:
> 
> This looks like a lot of uglification to me.  Why exactly do
> individual network drivers need to know or care about namespaces?

I think ppp is special because it's closer to the tunnel drivers
than a straight NIC driver which is why it needs this work.

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