# Re: \[PATCH net\] netns: export get\_net\_ns\_by\_id()

- From: Jakub Kicinski \<kuba@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2021-05-14 19:14:36 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/05/11203233
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/05/11203140/t.md

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On Thu, 13 May 2021 00:29:56 +0300 Sergey Ryazanov wrote:
> No one loadable module is able to obtain netns by id since the
> corresponding function has not been exported. Export it to be able to
> use netns id API in loadable modules too as already done for
> peernet2id_alloc().

peernet2id_alloc() is used by OvS, what's the user for get_net_ns_by_id()?
```