Return-path: Received: from mail-qg0-f44.google.com ([209.85.192.44]:55466 "EHLO mail-qg0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751008AbaIRIFN (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2014 04:05:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:05:11 +0300 Message-ID: (sfid-20140918_100535_054808_308AAFF1) Subject: Comments regarding patch about setting netns for wireless devices From: Vadim Kochan To: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , linux-wireless , Emmanuel Grumbach , John Linville , Oliver Hartkopp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi All, I'd like to get some feedback about the patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4890451/ The idea is that currently Linux wireless device is allowed to change the network namespace only by nl80211 API, so RTM_LINK API does not work. So I think that it should be possible to change netns through the RTM_LINK too as generic way to change netns, thats why I tried to solve this in the patch. Thanks,