netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv4: Disallow non-namespace aware protocols to register.

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Message-ID: <87pq028561.fsf@xmission.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:25:26 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: Disallow non-namespace aware protocols to register.

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:

> All in-tree ipv4 protocol implementations are now namespace
> aware.  Therefore all the run-time checks are superfluous.
>
> Reject registry of any non-namespace aware ipv4 protocol.
> Eventually we'll remove prot->netns_ok and this registry
> time check as well.

It has been a long time coming but this is very cool to see we have
finally made all of ipv4 network namespace aware.

Eric
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