mac80211 currently assumes init_net for all interfaces, so really will not cope well with network namespaces, at least at this time. To change this, we would have keep track of the netns in addition to the ifindex, which is not something I want to think about right now. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/iface.c | 1 + net/mac80211/main.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/iface.c 2009-02-11 20:17:10.000000000 +0100 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/iface.c 2009-02-11 20:18:14.000000000 +0100 @@ -810,6 +810,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_lo memcpy(ndev->dev_addr, local->hw.wiphy->perm_addr, ETH_ALEN); SET_NETDEV_DEV(ndev, wiphy_dev(local->hw.wiphy)); + ndev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL; /* don't use IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF because it checks too much */ sdata = netdev_priv(ndev); --- wireless-testing.orig/net/mac80211/main.c 2009-02-11 20:17:10.000000000 +0100 +++ wireless-testing/net/mac80211/main.c 2009-02-11 20:18:15.000000000 +0100 @@ -922,6 +922,7 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee802 memcpy(local->mdev->dev_addr, local->hw.wiphy->perm_addr, ETH_ALEN); SET_NETDEV_DEV(local->mdev, wiphy_dev(local->hw.wiphy)); + local->mdev->features |= NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL; result = register_netdevice(local->mdev); if (result < 0) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html