From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756707Ab0EQWzy (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 18:55:54 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:49702 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756646Ab0EQWzv (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 18:55:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 15:54:16 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Greg KH , David Miller , kay.sievers@vrfy.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, bcrl@lhnet.ca, serue@us.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] netns support in the kobject layer Message-ID: <20100517225416.GB14438@suse.de> References: <20100506200404.GA21805@kroah.com> <20100515.232643.212422307.davem@davemloft.net> <20100517181133.GB18721@kroah.com> <20100517210318.GA6170@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 03:37:22PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Greg KH writes: > > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 01:58:44PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> Greg KH writes: > >> > >> > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:26:43PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > >> >> From: Greg KH > >> >> Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 13:04:04 -0700 > >> >> > >> >> > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 05:35:54PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> >> >> > >> >> >> With the tagged sysfs support finally merged into Greg's tree, > >> >> >> it is time for the last little bits of work to get the kobject > >> >> >> layer and network namespaces to play together properly. > >> >> >> > >> >> >> These patches are roughly evenly divided between network layer work > >> >> >> and sysfs layer work. Last time this conundrum came up I believe > >> >> >> we decided that the easiest way to handle this was for Greg to carry > >> >> >> all of the patches. David, Greg does that still make sense? > >> >> > > >> >> > That's fine, if I get David's ack on these. > >> >> > >> >> Looks good to me: > >> >> > >> >> Acked-by: David S. Miller > >> > > >> > Ok. Eric, can you resend these to me when .35-rc1 is out so I can queue > >> > them up then to get some testing in linux-next so that they can make it > >> > into .36? > >> > >> Grumble. Grumble. Grumble. > >> > >> If I must I will resend these, but these patches are already in > >> production use, and I had them to you weeks before the merge window > >> closed. > > > > Yes, but they were not reviewed by the network maintainer until after > > the merge window closed. > > Strictly speaking the day before but I get your point. > > > I already have your sysfs-namespace patches > > queued up for .35, and that's a big enough change for me to feel > > comfortable with at the moment. > > > >> Is there no way we can get these in for 2.6.35? > > > > No, sorry. One thing at a time please. > > Sure. > > If we are going to push this last bit off until the 2.6.36 time frame > Dave, Greg mind if I flip around who I send these patches to? > > The big dependency is the sysfs-namespace patches which will be in > 2.6.35, and if the patches get into net-next as well as linux-next > there will be a larger number of potential testers. Sure, that's fine with me. thanks, greg k-h