Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755458AbWKVQl7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:41:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755440AbWKVQl6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:41:58 -0500 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:29365 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755381AbWKVQl5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:41:57 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:41:54 -0600 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" To: Cedric Le Goater Cc: Dmitry Mishin , Daniel Lezcano , Kirill Korotaev , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Herbert Poetzl , "Eric W. Biederman" , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch -mm] net namespace: empty framework Message-ID: <20061122164154.GB17378@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> References: <4563007B.9010202@fr.ibm.com> <4563046B.6040909@sw.ru> <45633EDF.3050309@fr.ibm.com> <200611221121.59322.dim@openvz.org> <4564566F.7030202@fr.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4564566F.7030202@fr.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1491 Lines: 40 Quoting Cedric Le Goater (clg@fr.ibm.com): > Hello, > > Dmitry Mishin wrote: > > > This patch looks acceptable for us. > > good. shall we merge it then ? see comment below. > > > BTW, Daniel, we agreed to be based on the Andrey's patchset. I do not see a > > reason, why Cedric force us to make some unnecessary work and move existent > > patchset over his interface. > > yeah it's a bit different from andrey's but not that much and it's more in Where is Andrey's patch? > the spirit of uts and ipc namespace (and user namespace if that reaches the > kernel one day :) so that's why i made the small changes. I agree the namespace frameworks should be consistent, but i don't know whether Andrey's is or not. I'd like to have the framework included so we reduce the number of silly rewrites due to clone flag collisions etc. > > It also helping the nsproxy/namespace syscalls to have a similar interface > to manipulate namespaces. who knows, soon we might be able to have a 'struct > namespace' with a ops field to define new namespace types ? > > I can also send a empty framework for user namespace ;) Please do - then I'll rebase the patchset I sent to the containes list onto your patch, and resubmit the whole userns. -serge - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/