netdev - Re: new link failing on duplicate names in different namespaces

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Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:40:33 +0100
From:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>,
	Eugene Yakubovich <eugene.yakubovich@...eos.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: new link failing on duplicate names in different namespaces

Le 26/02/2015 14:55, Eric W. Biederman a écrit :
[snip]
>
> We can not give the guarantee that a new network device will only live
> in and have a unique name in a single network namespace until we get
> rid of dev_change_net_namespace in the code.
In fact in case of IFLA_LINK_NETNSID, with Cong's patch, we will first check
that the name is unique in link_net and after dev_change_net_namespace() will
check that the name is also unique in the final net, else the command will fail
(and the device is not created).
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