From: Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org>
Organization: SWsoft
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch -mm] net namespace: empty framework
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:07:40 +0300
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On Thursday 23 November 2006 05:39, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Dmitry Mishin (dim@openvz.org):
> > On Wednesday 22 November 2006 19:41, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > This thread - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/42666
>
> Thanks, Dmitry.  Now I do recall seeing that before.
>
> That patchset appears to go part, but not all the way to fitting in with
> the existing namespaces.  For instance, you use exit_task_namespaces() for
> refcounting, but don't put the net_namespace in the nsproxy and use your
> own mechanism for unsharing.
>
> It really seems useful to have all the namespaces be consistent whenever
> practical, and I don't think your patchset would need much tweaking to
> fit onto Cedric's patch.  Am I missing a complicating factor?
No. I've already said, Cedric's patch is acceptable for us.


-- 
Thanks,
Dmitry.
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