Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 11:41 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> So please hold off on this until the kernel has been audited and >> we have removed all of the uses of ifindex that assume ifindex is >> global, that we can find. > > I certainly have this assumption in the wireless code (cfg80211). How > would I go about removing it? Are netlink sockets per-namespace so I can > use the namespace of the netlink socket to look up a netdev?
Yes. Netlink sockets are per-namespace and you can use the namespace of a netlink socket to look up a netdev. Eric - 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
