netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] netns: enable to inherit devconf from current netns

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Message-Id: <20200516.134713.1292776651602163885.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sat, 16 May 2020 13:47:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netns: enable to inherit devconf from current
 netns

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 15:58:43 +0200

> The goal is to be able to inherit the initial devconf parameters from the
> current netns, ie the netns where this new netns has been created.
> 
> This is useful in a containers environment where /proc/sys is read only.
> For example, if a pod is created with specifics devconf parameters and has
> the capability to create netns, the user expects to get the same parameters
> than his 'init_net', which is not the real init_net in this case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>

Applied, thanks.