From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: "Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)" <maheshb@google.com>,
"Jonas Bonn" <jonas@norrbonn.se>
Cc: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, linux-netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Add namespace awareness to Netlink methods
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 14:11:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d34174c2-a4d4-b3da-ded5-dcb97a89c80c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF2d9jjteagJGmt64mNFH-pFmGg_eM8_NNBrDtROcaVKhcNkRQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/7/19 1:40 PM, Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार) wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 5:30 AM Jonas Bonn <jonas@norrbonn.se> wrote:
>>
>> Changed in v3:
>> - added patch 6 for setting IPv6 address outside current namespace
>> - address checkpatch warnings
>> - address comment from Nicolas
>>
>> Changed in v2:
>> - address comment from Nicolas
>> - add accumulated ACK's
>>
>> Currently, Netlink has partial support for acting outside of the current
>> namespace. It appears that the intention was to extend this to all the
>> methods eventually, but it hasn't been done to date.
>>
>> With this series RTM_SETLINK, RTM_NEWLINK, RTM_NEWADDR, and RTM_NEWNSID
>> are extended to respect the selection of the namespace to work in.
>>
> This is nice, is there a plan to update userspace commands using this?
I'm hoping for an iproute2 update and test cases to validate the changes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-07 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-07 13:27 [PATCH v3 0/6] Add namespace awareness to Netlink methods Jonas Bonn
2019-11-07 13:27 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] rtnetlink: allow RTM_SETLINK to reference other namespaces Jonas Bonn
2019-11-07 20:36 ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2019-11-08 8:20 ` Jonas Bonn
2019-11-08 18:55 ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2019-11-09 14:17 ` Jonas Bonn
2019-11-12 1:29 ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2019-11-07 13:27 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] rtnetlink: skip namespace change if already effect Jonas Bonn
2019-11-07 13:27 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] rtnetlink: allow RTM_NEWLINK to act upon interfaces in arbitrary namespaces Jonas Bonn
2019-11-07 13:27 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] net: ipv4: allow setting address on interface outside current namespace Jonas Bonn
2019-11-07 13:27 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] net: namespace: allow setting NSIDs " Jonas Bonn
2019-11-07 13:27 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] net: ipv6: allow setting address on interface " Jonas Bonn
2019-11-07 13:56 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] " Jonas Bonn
2019-11-07 16:58 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2019-11-07 18:37 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] Add namespace awareness to Netlink methods David Miller
2019-11-07 20:40 ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
2019-11-07 21:11 ` David Ahern [this message]
2019-11-08 15:36 ` Jonas Bonn
2019-11-08 18:59 ` Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
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