netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v10 00/13] net: Improve netns handling in rtnetlink

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Message-ID: <20250221154751.54318ae5@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:47:51 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Xiao Liang <shaw.leon@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v10 00/13] net: Improve netns handling in
 rtnetlink

On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:26 +0800 Xiao Liang wrote:
> Patch 01 avoids link name conflict in different netns.
> 
> To achieve 2), there're mainly 3 steps:
> 
>  - Patch 02 packs newlink() parameters into a struct, including
>    the original "src_net" along with more netns context. No semantic
>    changes are introduced.
>  - Patch 03 ~ 09 converts device drivers to use the explicit netns
>    extracted from params.
>  - Patch 10 ~ 11 removes the old netns parameter, and converts
>    rtnetlink to create device in target netns directly.
> 
> Patch 12 ~ 13 adds some tests for link name and link netns.

Nice work, thank you!