Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752756AbZAKLUp (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:20:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751291AbZAKLUe (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:20:34 -0500 Received: from rhun.apana.org.au ([64.62.148.172]:39337 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750938AbZAKLUd (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:20:33 -0500 Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:20:19 +1100 From: Herbert Xu To: paulus@samba.org Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, devel@openvz.org, xemul@openvz.org Subject: Re: [RFC 4/4] net: ppp_generic - introduce net-namespace functionality Message-ID: <20090111112019.GA29691@gondor.apana.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 765 Lines: 19 Paul Mackerras wrote: > > This looks like a lot of uglification to me. Why exactly do > individual network drivers need to know or care about namespaces? I think ppp is special because it's closer to the tunnel drivers than a straight NIC driver which is why it needs this work. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- 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/