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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	Denis Lunev <den@openvz.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netns: Coexist with the sysfs limitations
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:21:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081022212124.GA9910@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17i80nzff.fsf@frodo.ebiederm.org>

Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
> 
> To make testing of the network namespace simpler allow
> the network namespace code and the sysfs code to be
> compiled and run at the same time.  To do this only
> virtual devices are allowed in the additional network
> namespaces and those virtual devices are not placed
> in the kobject tree.
> 
> Since virtual devices don't actually do anything interesting
> hardware wise that needs device management there should
> be no loss in keeping them out of the kobject tree and
> by implication sysfs.  The gain in ease of testing
> and code coverage should be significant.
> 
> I.e. people running distributions that make it next to
> impossible to boot without sysfs should at be able to
> boot a test kernel now.
> 
> Plus no ABIs are harmed with this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Duh.

Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>

Thanks, Eric!  Thanks, Benjamin!

-serge

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-22 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-22 15:21 [PATCH 0/4][RFC] netns: sysfs: add a netns suffix to net device sysfs entries Benjamin Thery
2008-10-22 15:21 ` [PATCH 1/4] netns: add in ida ID to identify the network namespace Benjamin Thery
2008-10-22 15:21 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-10-22 15:22 ` [PATCH 2/4] netns: Export nets id to /proc/net/netns Benjamin Thery
2008-10-22 15:22 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-10-22 15:22 ` [PATCH 3/4] net: cleanup some vars names to be more consistant with the network code Benjamin Thery
2008-10-22 15:22 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-10-22 15:22 ` [PATCH 4/4] netns: sysfs: add netns suffix to net devices sysfs entries Benjamin Thery
2008-10-22 15:22 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-10-22 19:59 ` [PATCH 0/4][RFC] netns: sysfs: add a netns suffix to net device " Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-22 20:30   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-22 21:01     ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]       ` <m18wsgmji0.fsf-B27657KtZYmhTnVgQlOflh2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-22 21:55         ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-10-22 21:55       ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-10-22 22:54         ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-22 22:54         ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]           ` <m11vy8jl5s.fsf-B27657KtZYmhTnVgQlOflh2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-23  4:14             ` Kyle Moffett
2008-10-23  4:14           ` Kyle Moffett
     [not found]     ` <20081022203045.GA4633-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-22 21:01       ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]   ` <m1d4hso0ym.fsf-B27657KtZYmhTnVgQlOflh2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-22 20:30     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-23 11:56     ` Benjamin Thery
2008-10-23 11:56   ` Benjamin Thery
2008-10-23 15:46     ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]     ` <49006671.3010804-6ktuUTfB/bM@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-23 15:46       ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-22 20:16 ` Greg KH
2008-10-22 21:08   ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]     ` <m17i80l4mt.fsf-B27657KtZYmhTnVgQlOflh2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-22 21:24       ` Greg KH
2008-10-22 21:24     ` Greg KH
     [not found]   ` <20081022201601.GC24959-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-22 21:08     ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-22 20:32 ` [PATCH] netns: Coexist with the sysfs limitations Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-22 20:40   ` Daniel Lezcano
     [not found]   ` <m17i80nzff.fsf-B27657KtZYmhTnVgQlOflh2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-22 20:40     ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-10-22 21:21     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-22 21:21   ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2008-10-23  8:04     ` Benjamin Thery
2008-10-23 15:40       ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]       ` <49003019.40904-6ktuUTfB/bM@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-23 15:40         ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-23 15:56         ` [PATCH] netns: Coexist with the sysfs limitations v2 Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-23 15:56       ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-27 19:41         ` David Miller
     [not found]           ` <20081027.124126.74749150.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-27 20:19             ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-27 20:19           ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]             ` <m1skqh4wq8.fsf-B27657KtZYmhTnVgQlOflh2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-28  0:50               ` David Miller
2008-10-28  0:50             ` David Miller
     [not found]         ` <m1fxmni9uv.fsf_-_-B27657KtZYmhTnVgQlOflh2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-27 19:41           ` David Miller
     [not found]     ` <20081022212124.GA9910-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-23  8:04       ` [PATCH] netns: Coexist with the sysfs limitations Benjamin Thery
     [not found] ` <20081022152144.351965414-4vkkeT0zb4ZEtYaxpPmRp1aPQRlvutdw@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-22 19:59   ` [PATCH 0/4][RFC] netns: sysfs: add a netns suffix to net device sysfs entries Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-22 20:16   ` Greg KH
2008-10-22 20:32   ` [PATCH] netns: Coexist with the sysfs limitations Eric W. Biederman

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