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DateSat, 1 Dec 2007 12:29:26 -0800
FromArjan van de Ven <>
SubjectRe: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:21:12 -0500
Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> wrote:

> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> > Sure. We keep the updated dev_get_by_XXXX that takes a network
> > namespace parameter.
> ..
>
> And what should code be passing in when "# CONFIG_NET_NS is not set" ?

network drivers probably really really don't want to call
dev_get_by_XXX...

in fact no NIC driver in drivers/net does so!
Sounds like whatever driver you're looking at has a nasty bug in that
it's using non-driver APIs...



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