[Devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] netns: Delete virtual interfaces during namespace cleanup

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Nov 5 16:00:39 PST 2008


From: ebiederm at xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:22:26 -0800

> 
> When physical devices are inside of network namespace and that
> network namespace terminates we can not make them go away.  We
> have to keep them and moving them to the initial network namespace
> is the best we can do.
> 
> For virtual devices left in a network namespace that is exiting
> we have no need to preserve them and we now have the infrastructure
> that allows us to delete them.  So delete virtual devices when we
> exit a network namespace.  Keeping the necessary user space clean up
> after a network namespace exits much more tractable.
> 
> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano at fr.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at openvz.org>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>

Applied.
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