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[NET]: netlink support for moving devices between network namespaces.
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:57:04 +0000 (13:57 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:49:13 +0000 (16:49 -0700)
commitd8a5ec672768c3cf4d51d7a63fc071520afa1617
tree16401b29340732fa37de7899fc44db6b682e20d7
parentce286d327341295f58d89864d746a524287cfdf9
[NET]: netlink support for moving devices between network namespaces.

The simplest thing to implement is moving network devices between
namespaces.  However with the same attribute IFLA_NET_NS_PID we can
easily implement creating devices in the destination network
namespace as well.  However that is a little bit trickier so this
patch sticks to what is simple and easy.

A pid is used to identify a process that happens to be a member
of the network namespace we want to move the network device to.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/linux/if_link.h
net/core/rtnetlink.c