From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver-core: Fix bluetooth network device rename regression Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:10:45 +0200 Message-ID: <1279807845.12439.20.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> References: <20100621222938.GA20583@suse.de> <20100621231058.GA1066@suse.de> <20100622035631.GA3755@suse.de> <20100708211930.GA15385@kroah.com> <20100708230601.GB17002@kroah.com> <20100719133451.0862ca62.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100720201334.GA11991@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , Greg KH , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , netdev To: Kay Sievers Return-path: Received: from he.sipsolutions.net ([78.46.109.217]:41735 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759350Ab0GVOMR (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:12:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 15:38 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > Please try to fix these drivers instead, or mark the broken for > namespaces, if nobody can fix them right now. We've tried. Nobody, including you, has been able to suggest how to fix it. And it's not just broken with network namespaces enabled either, as Eric explained. I really don't see why you keep asking us to fix it when clearly we cannot -- even you don't know how and you certainly have more insight into the device model than we do. johannes