netdev - Re: [Patch net] macvlan: add NETIF_F_NETNS

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Message-ID: <1392092057.6615.63.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:14:17 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] macvlan: add NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL flag

On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 17:36 -0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> From: Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
> 
> BZ: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66691
> 
> There is no point to allow moving a macvlan device to
> another namespace while the lower device is still in
> this namespace. tunnels already set this flag.

What do you mean ?

This is probably one of the needed/useful feature of macvlan !


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