netdev - Re: [PATCH net] s390/qeth: support net namespaces for L3 devices

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Message-Id: <20200327.153902.1896503128370913021.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:39:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jwi@...ux.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, ubraun@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] s390/qeth: support net namespaces for L3 devices

From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:00:42 +0100

> Enable the L3 driver's IPv4 address notifier to watch for events on qeth
> devices that have been moved into a net namespace. We need to program
> those IPs into the HW just as usual, otherwise inbound traffic won't
> flow.
> 
> Fixes: 6133fb1aa137 ("[NETNS]: Disable inetaddr notifiers in namespaces other than initial.")
> Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.ibm.com>

This looks more like a feature, openning the L3 driver into multiple
namespaces, rather than a critical fix.