Thinking about this I am going to suggest a slightly different direction for get a patchset we can merge.
First we concentrate on the fundamentals. - How we mark a device as belonging to a specific network namespace. - How we mark a socket as belonging to a specific network namespace. As part of the fundamentals we add a patch to the generic socket code that by default will disable it for protocol families that do not indicate support for handling network namespaces, on a non-default network namespace. I think that gives us a path that will allow us to convert the network stack one protocol family at a time instead of in one big lump. Stubbing off the sysfs and sysctl interfaces in the first round for the non-default namespaces as you have done should be good enough. The reason for the suggestion is that most of the work for the protocol stacks ipv4 ipv6 af_packet af_unix is largely noise, and simple replacement without real design work happening. Mostly it is just tweaking the code to remove global variables, and doing a couple lookups. 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
