Re: [PATCH net-next] Allow to set net namespace for wireless device via RTM_LINK

On Tue, 2014-10-14 at 15:16 +0300, vadim4j-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:

The reason for this was to make possible to change netns for wireless
dev via 'ip link' too like for 'iw' util. I just think that changing
namespace for netdev should have the generic way. May be you can suggest
a better way

That's a respectable goal, but I think you're way overshooting it and
thus getting it wrong. You're changing the semantics from

 "please switch this interface to that other netns"

to
 "please switch this interface *and all others on this HW* to that other
netns"

which is, in my opinion, something so much more unexpected and prone to
breaking people's setups than returning "not supported" here.

johannes

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