From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:58:36 +0300
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
>
> After the previous prep work this just consists of removing checks
> limiting the code to work in the initial network namespace, and
> updating rtmsg_ifinfo so we can generate events for devices in
> something other then the initial network namespace.
>
> Referring to network other network devices like the IFLA_LINK
> and IFLA_MASTER attributes do, gets interesting if those network
> devices happen to be in other network namespaces. Currently
> ifindex numbers are allocated globally so I have taken the path
> of least resistance and not still report the information even
> though the devices they are talking about are invisible.
>
> If applications start getting confused or when ifindex
> numbers become local to the network namespace we may need
> to do something different in the future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openz.org>
Applied, thanks.
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