[NETNS] Oops in register_pernet_operations() with CONFIG_NET_NS=n

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Fri Oct 26 04:31:55 PDT 2007


From: ebiederm at xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:21:55 -0600

> > By the way, I think that we can in the case of undefined CONFIG_NET_NS
> > reduce register to calling ->init method and unregister to calling
> > ->exit method.
> >
> > This is a correct thing at least for now and will be welcomed by the all
> > embedded/etc people.
> 
> I'm not fundamentally opposed.  Earlier versions of my patchset
> did that and more.   However I think the pain is greater then the
> gain right now.  Especially since this concept seem to require
> having quality inspected into it.

I think the correct thing to do for now is to simply remove these
__net_* markers and their definitions.  There are so many tricky cases
that it is easier to just get rid of them.

Could someone send me a patch which does that?


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