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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/11] sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support.
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:50:04 -0700
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"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> writes:

> Now that the iproute2 patch is upstream, this patchset really is the
> only thing keeping us from using network namespaces.  Given that the
> details of the tagging are trivially changeable with no abi changes, I'd
> personally much rather see the patches go in as is, with whatever new
> tagging patches Benjamin whips up, using ida or some new idea, being
> applied later if we feel the need.

My point exactly.  No one seems to contest the userspace semantics so
as long as we don't put ourselves into a real mess we should be fine.

Eric