[Devel] Re: [RFC 4/4] net: ppp_generic - introduce net-namespace functionality

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Sun Jan 11 03:20:19 PST 2009


Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> This looks like a lot of uglification to me.  Why exactly do
> individual network drivers need to know or care about namespaces?

I think ppp is special because it's closer to the tunnel drivers
than a straight NIC driver which is why it needs this work.

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