From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash•net>
To: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz•org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Virtual ethernet device driver
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:24:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46962B72.3070000@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <469629FD.4030709@openvz.org>
Pavel Emelianov wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
>>>+
>>>+ if (tb[IFLA_IFNAME])
>>>+ nla_strlcpy(ifname, tb[IFLA_IFNAME], IFNAMSIZ);
>>>+ else
>>>+ snprintf(ifname, IFNAMSIZ, DRV_NAME "%%d");
>>
>>
>>Does this work? The other device is not registered at this time, so I
>>think the allocated names could clash ..
>
>
> Oh! And one more thing, I've just thought about - even two devices with
> similar name would be ok when we have a namespaces and one of the ends of
> this tunnel is to be in some other namespace rather that the init one.
Yes, but we don't have network namespaces yet. Which brings up another
question: is this driver of any use without namespaces?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-12 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-12 9:13 [PATCH 0/2] Virtual ethernet device (v3) Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 9:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] Introduce the generic rtnl_create_link() Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 9:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] Virtual ethernet device driver Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 12:31 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-12 13:14 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 13:21 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-12 13:36 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 13:44 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-12 13:58 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 13:17 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 13:24 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2007-07-16 9:10 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 13:51 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-12 14:01 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 14:10 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-16 9:16 ` Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-16 13:13 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-12 9:21 ` [PATCH 0/2] Module for ip utility to support veth device (v.3) Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 9:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] Intruduce iplink_parse() routine Pavel Emelianov
2007-07-12 9:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] Module for ip utility to support veth device Pavel Emelianov
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2007-07-19 9:24 [PATCH] Virtual ethernet device (v.4) Pavel Emelyanov
2007-07-19 9:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] Virtual ethernet device driver Pavel Emelyanov
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