Subject: Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

From: Mark Lord <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:13:13 -0500

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:21:12 -0500
> Mark Lord <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]> writes:
>>> Sure.  We keep the updated dev_get_by_XXXX that takes a network
>>> namespace parameter.
>> ..
>>
>> And what should code be passing in when "# CONFIG_NET_NS is not set" ?
>
> network drivers probably really really don't want to call
> dev_get_by_XXX...
..

Fine.  But all of them want to call sk_alloc(),
and many want to do register_netdev().

So what should they be using there ?

And please STOP trimming the CC list.