Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Add namespace awareness to Netlink methods

[David Ahern]

On 11/5/19 10:39 PM, Jonas Bonn wrote:
> Changed in v2:
> - address comment from Nicolas
> - add accumulated ACK's
> 
> Currently, Netlink has partial support for acting outside of the current
> namespace.  It appears that the intention was to extend this to all the
> methods eventually, but it hasn't been done to date.
> 
> With this series RTM_SETLINK, RTM_NEWLINK, RTM_NEWADDR, and RTM_NEWNSID
> are extended to respect the selection of the namespace to work in.
> 
> /Jonas
> 

Tests should be added to either netdevice.sh or rtnetlink.sh under
tools/testing/selftests/net for the new capabilities added here.
Negative tests as well.