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Re: [PATCH][NETNS] Make ifindex generation per-namespace [message #21547 is a reply to message #21476] Wed, 10 October 2007 18:34 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Johannes Berg is currently offline  Johannes Berg
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On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 11:41 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> So please hold off on this until the kernel has been audited and
> we have removed all of the uses of ifindex that assume ifindex is
> global, that we can find.

I certainly have this assumption in the wireless code (cfg80211). How
would I go about removing it? Are netlink sockets per-namespace so I can
use the namespace of the netlink socket to look up a netdev?

johannes
 
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