netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] man: remove ppp from list of devices not allowed to change netns

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Message-ID: <20191108153159.25e09c8a@hermes.lan>
Date:   Fri, 8 Nov 2019 15:31:59 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
Cc:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] man: remove ppp from list of devices not
 allowed to change netns

On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 22:28:04 +0100
Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com> wrote:

> PPP devices can be moved to different network namespaces. The feature
> was added by commit 79c441ae505c ("ppp: implement x-netns support")
> in Linux 4.3.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
> ---
>  man/man8/ip-link.8.in | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
> index 9629a649..939e2ad4 100644
> --- a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
> +++ b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
> @@ -1921,7 +1921,7 @@ move the device to the network namespace associated with name
>  .RI process " PID".
>  
>  Some devices are not allowed to change network namespace: loopback, bridge,
> -ppp, wireless. These are network namespace local devices. In such case
> +wireless. These are network namespace local devices. In such case
>  .B ip
>  tool will return "Invalid argument" error. It is possible to find out
>  if device is local to a single network namespace by checking

This doesn't have to wait for net-next