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From: ebiederm@xmission•com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: David Shwatrz <dshwatrz@gmail•com>
Cc: Renato Westphal <renatowestphal@gmail•com>, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Move an interface to init_ne
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:28:43 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hao9elok.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJJAcofHM+D8_2u-w5jPJZKfeA0A7QOxX1gxTQ2vOgx-L9aZhQ@mail.gmail.com> (David Shwatrz's message of "Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:31:15 +0200")

David Shwatrz <dshwatrz@gmail•com> writes:

> But when I run "modprobe 8139too" on namespace1, a device named "eth1"
> is created on the initial network namespace and not on namesapce1.
> I expected that in such a case, a device named "eth0" will be created
> on namespace1, since it was called from namespace1. Or maybe modprobe
> does
> not consider the namespace from which it was called ?

modprobe has no concept of the namespace from which it was called.

Eric

      reply	other threads:[~2012-11-28 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-28 14:39 Move an interface to init_ne David Shwatrz
2012-11-28 15:01 ` Renato Westphal
2012-11-28 15:31   ` David Shwatrz
2012-11-28 16:28     ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]

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