Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Add namespace awareness to Netlink methods

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Nov 07 2019 - 13:37:36 EST


From: Jonas Bonn <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 14:27:49 +0100

> Changed in v3:
> - added patch 6 for setting IPv6 address outside current namespace
> - address checkpatch warnings
> - address comment from Nicolas
>
> 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.

This patch series does not apply cleanly to net-next, please respin.

I think v2 had this problem too.