Hello Oliver, I just sent a v2 patch to all the required recipients.
I do not have a plan yet but virtual CAN links are also of interest to me. However, I first wanted to check if this initial patch is acceptable before looking at this topic. Best regards, Mario On 16.02.2017 14:47, Oliver Hartkopp wrote: > Hello Mario, > > thanks for your patch. > > On 02/16/2017 12:39 PM, Mario Kicherer wrote: >> This patch adds initial support for network namespaces. The changes only >> enable support in the CAN raw, proc and af_can code. GW and BCM still >> have their checks that ensure that they are used only from the main >> namespace. >> >> The patch boils down to moving the global structures, i.e. the global >> filter list and their /proc stats, into a per-namespace structure and passing >> around the corresponding "struct net" in a lot of different places. >> >> Signed-off-by: Mario Kicherer <d...@kicherer.org> > > Although it does not apply on the latest kernel due to this patch: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f1712c73714088a7252d276a57126d56c7d37e64 > > Please rebase your patch to the latest kernel tree and post it again. > > Additionally you should post CAN related stuff to the linux-can ML (see CC) > and the CAN maintainers found in the MAINTAINERS file. In this case cross > posting to netdev ML is fine as namespaces are very netdev related. > > Do you have an idea how to go with namespace aware virtual CAN interfaces to > link the namespaces? > > Regards, > Oliver >
