From c06a9e4718b16b772685a26a6a2bcae01c64d004 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: judyjoseph <53951155+judyjoseph@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:33:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Platform monitor changes in daemon_base for multi_asic
 (#4932)

Adding namespace support for db connect API.
---
 src/sonic-py-common/sonic_py_common/daemon_base.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/sonic-py-common/sonic_py_common/daemon_base.py b/src/sonic-py-common/sonic_py_common/daemon_base.py
index efb172c842..5e718b18ab 100644
--- a/src/sonic-py-common/sonic_py_common/daemon_base.py
+++ b/src/sonic-py-common/sonic_py_common/daemon_base.py
@@ -15,13 +15,16 @@ REDIS_TIMEOUT_MSECS = 0
 EEPROM_MODULE_NAME = 'eeprom'
 EEPROM_CLASS_NAME = 'board'
 
+# The empty namespace refers to linux host namespace.
+EMPTY_NAMESPACE = ''
+
 #
 # Helper functions =============================================================
 #
 
-def db_connect(db_name):
+def db_connect(db_name, namespace=EMPTY_NAMESPACE):
     from swsscommon import swsscommon
-    return swsscommon.DBConnector(db_name, REDIS_TIMEOUT_MSECS, True)
+    return swsscommon.DBConnector(db_name, REDIS_TIMEOUT_MSECS, True, namespace)
 
 #
 # DaemonBase ===================================================================