netdev - Re: [patch net-next v2 0/4] net: allow per-net notifier to follow netdev into namespace

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Date:   Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:04:01 +0100 (CET)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com,
        saeedm@...lanox.com, leon@...nel.org, tariqt@...lanox.com,
        ayal@...lanox.com, vladbu@...lanox.com, michaelgur@...lanox.com,
        moshe@...lanox.com, mlxsw@...lanox.com, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 0/4] net: allow per-net notifier to follow
 netdev into namespace

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 12:17:05 +0100

> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> 
> Currently we have per-net notifier, which allows to get only
> notifications relevant to particular network namespace. That is enough
> for drivers that have netdevs local in a particular namespace (cannot
> move elsewhere).
> 
> However if netdev can change namespace, per-net notifier cannot be used.
> Introduce dev_net variant that is basically per-net notifier with an
> extension that re-registers the per-net notifier upon netdev namespace
> change. Basically the per-net notifier follows the netdev into
> namespace.

Series applied, thanks Jiri.