Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> writes:

> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:21:12 -0500
>> Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>>>> Sure.  We keep the updated dev_get_by_XXXX that takes a network
>>>> namespace parameter.
>>> ..
>>>
>>> And what should code be passing in when "# CONFIG_NET_NS is not set" ?
>>
>> network drivers probably really really don't want to call
>> dev_get_by_XXX...
> ..
>
> Fine.  But all of them want to call sk_alloc(),

network drivers should be calling sk_alloc less then they should
call dev_get_by_XXXX.  Only protocols call sk_alloc.

> and many want to do register_netdev().

I haven't even touched register_netdev.

> So what should they be using there ?

What are you having problems with?

It is hard to answer specific questions without a context.

Eric
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