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
next prev parent 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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