Re: namespace support requires network modules to say "GPL"

On 12/02/2007 12:13 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

Mark Lord [off-list ref] writes:

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Fine.  But all of them want to call sk_alloc(),

network drivers should be calling sk_alloc less then they should
call dev_get_by_XXXX.  Only protocols call sk_alloc.

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and many want to do register_netdev().

I haven't even touched register_netdev.

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So what should they be using there ?

What are you having problems with?

It is hard to answer specific questions without a context.

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