From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754504AbXLDULf (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:11:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754191AbXLDULQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:11:16 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:54932 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754176AbXLDULN (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:11:13 -0500 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Ben Greear Cc: Daniel Lezcano , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org, Mark Lord , Stephen Hemminger , David Miller Subject: Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL" References: <47515D39.9030900@rtr.ca> <20071201111736.297dd99a@freepuppy.rosehill> <20071201163035.321fd554@freepuppy.rosehill> <475227B1.2060802@rtr.ca> <20071201202354.672aed18@freepuppy.rosehill> <47530778.7030605@candelatech.com> <47530FAC.1070804@trash.net> <47544896.7070101@candelatech.com> <475451B1.1030006@free.fr> <4755A025.8090903@candelatech.com> <4755AC13.1060904@candelatech.com> Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:09:24 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4755AC13.1060904@candelatech.com> (Ben Greear's message of "Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:35:47 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ben Greear writes: > Ok, but can a netdev at least know what namespace it is in? I don't > need this for my module, but it seems very useful knowledge... Sure. dev->nd_net It is a don't care not a don't know, and there should be device events when it goes in and out of a network namespace. I don't know if the device gets those or not. Eric