Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755926AbWKVQ6A (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:58:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755953AbWKVQ57 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:57:59 -0500 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:59023 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755902AbWKVQ56 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:57:58 -0500 Message-ID: <45648190.20000@fr.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:57:52 +0100 From: Cedric Le Goater User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Serge E. Hallyn" 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 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> <20061122164154.GB17378@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20061122164154.GB17378@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1254 Lines: 34 > Where is Andrey's patch? The last I saw was on 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 : http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=115572448503723&w=2 >> 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. yes. it is a pain to maintain. >> 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. I'll send a refreshed version of both in the next round. C. - 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/