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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, stern@rowland.harvard.edu,
	kay.sievers@vrfy.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 3/4] sysfs: divorce sysfs from kobject and driver model
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 15:53:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071009225306.GG21228@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1myuxloiz.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 06:44:04AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
> 
> > I would be interested in seeing what your patches look like.
> 
> Sure. 
> 
> > I don't
> > think that we should take any more sysfs changes for 2.6.24 as we do
> > have a lot of them right now, and I don't think that Tejun and I agree
> > on the future direction of the outstanding ones just yet.
> 
> Sounds reasonable.
> 
> > But I don't think that your multiple-mount patches could make it into
> > .24, unless .23 is still weeks away.
> 
> Well I have posted them all earlier.  At this point I it makes most
> sense to wait until after the big merge happen and every rebases on
> top of that.  Then everyone will have network namespace support and
> it is easier to look through all of the patches.  Especially since
> it looks like the merge window will open any day now.
> 
> I will quickly recap the essence of what I am looking at:
> On directories of interest I tag all of their directory
> entries with which namespace they belong to.  On a mount
> of sysfs I remember which namespace we were in when we
> mounted sysfs.  The I filter readdir and lookup based upon
> the namespace I captured at mount time.  I do my best
> to generalize it so that the logic can work for different
> namespaces.

Ok, I have no objection to that.  Let's wait for 2.6.24 to settle down
:)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-09 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-20  8:05 [PATCHSET 3/4] sysfs: divorce sysfs from kobject and driver model Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 05/22] sysfs: implement sysfs_find_child() Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 03/22] sysfs: make sysfs_new_dirent() normalize @mode and determine file type Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 02/22] sysfs: separate out sysfs-kobject.h and fs/sysfs/kobject.c Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 06/22] sysfs: restructure addrm helpers Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 01/22] sysfs: make sysfs_root a pointer Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 04/22] sysfs: make SYSFS_COPY_NAME a flag Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 12/22] sysfs: drop kobj and attr from bin related symbols Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 07/22] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent based remove interface sysfs_remove() Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 11/22] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent based file interface Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 09/22] sysfs: rename internal function sysfs_add_file() Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 14/22] sysfs: s/symlink/link/g Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 13/22] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent based bin interface Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 10/22] sysfs: drop kobj and attr from file related symbols Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 08/22] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent based directory interface Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 17/22] sysfs: s/sysfs_rename_mutex/sysfs_op_mutex/ and protect all tree modifying ops Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 15/22] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent based link interface Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 18/22] kobject: implement __kobject_set_name() Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 16/22] sysfs: convert group implementation to use sd-based interface Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 22/22] sysfs: move sysfs_assoc_lock into fs/sysfs/kobject.c and make it static Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 19/22] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent based rename - sysfs_rename() Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 20/22] sysfs: kill now unused __sysfs_add_file() Tejun Heo
2007-09-20  8:05 ` [PATCH 21/22] sysfs: kill sysfs_hash_and_remove() Tejun Heo
2007-09-25 22:17 ` [PATCHSET 3/4] sysfs: divorce sysfs from kobject and driver model Greg KH
2007-09-27 11:35   ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-27 19:25     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-29 22:06       ` Tejun Heo
2007-10-05  6:23       ` Greg KH
2007-10-05 12:12         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-05 13:03           ` [Devel] " Kirill Korotaev
2007-10-05 13:24             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-09 22:51           ` Greg KH
2007-10-10 13:16             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-10 20:44               ` Greg KH
2007-10-10 21:16                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-16 22:18               ` sukadev
2007-10-16 23:54                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-05 12:44         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-09 22:53           ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-10-05  6:18     ` Greg KH
2007-10-05  8:00       ` Tejun Heo
2007-10-09  9:29         ` Cornelia Huck
2007-10-09 22:26           ` Greg KH
2007-10-09 23:20             ` Roland Dreier
2007-10-09 23:28               ` Greg KH
2007-10-10  9:11                 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-10-10  9:05             ` Cornelia Huck
2007-10-09 22:48         ` Greg KH
2007-10-10 15:38           ` Alan Stern
2007-10-10 16:16             ` Cornelia Huck
2007-10-10 17:24           ` Martin Bligh
2007-10-10 17:30             ` Greg KH
2007-10-10 18:26               ` Martin Bligh
2007-10-10 18:44                 ` Greg KH

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