From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:27:11 -0600
> > Every user of the network device notifiers is either a protocol > stack or a pseudo device. If a protocol stack that does not have > support for multiple network namespaces receives an event for a > device that is not in the initial network namespace it quite possibly > can get confused and do the wrong thing. > > To avoid problems until all of the protocol stacks are converted > this patch modifies all netdev event handlers to ignore events on > devices that are not in the initial network namespace. > > As the rest of the code is made network namespace aware these > checks can be removed. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
