Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Support creating macvlans from macvlans

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:54:40 +0100

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> When running in a network namespace whose only link to
> the outside world is a macvlan device, not being
> able to create another macvlan is a real pain.
> 
> So modify macvlan creation to allow automatically forward
> a creation of a macvlan on a macvlan to become a creation
> of a macvlan on the underlying network device.

I'm not sure I understand the constallation, what is the underlying
device in this case? A device outside the namespace?