Subject: Re: [PATCH][IPROUTE2] Support device movement between network namespaces

From: [email-masked] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:27:17 -0700

Benjamin Thery <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi Stephen,
>
> I don't know if anyone has already sent you this patch for iproute2 to
> enable movement of network devices between network namespaces. 
> (Daniel Lezcano is the original author). 
>
> It applies on iproute2-2.6.25.
>
> Benjamin
>
>
> This patch adds support for the IFLA_NET_NS_PID type used to move 
> network devices between network namespaces.
>
> The syntax is: 
> ip link DEVICE netns PID
>
> PID is the pid of a process in the target network namespace.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email-masked]>

It does not look like this patch has been merged?
Is the queue just slow right now? Or is there some particular reason?

Eric