From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" Subject: Re: [PATCH] netns: Coexist with the sysfs limitations Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:21:24 -0500 Message-ID: <20081022212124.GA9910@us.ibm.com> References: <20081022152144.351965414@theryb.frec.bull.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Benjamin Thery , netdev , Dave Miller , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Al Viro , Daniel Lezcano , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Denis Lunev , Linux Containers To: "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:45828 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752408AbYJVVV3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:21:29 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com): > > To make testing of the network namespace simpler allow > the network namespace code and the sysfs code to be > compiled and run at the same time. To do this only > virtual devices are allowed in the additional network > namespaces and those virtual devices are not placed > in the kobject tree. > > Since virtual devices don't actually do anything interesting > hardware wise that needs device management there should > be no loss in keeping them out of the kobject tree and > by implication sysfs. The gain in ease of testing > and code coverage should be significant. > > I.e. people running distributions that make it next to > impossible to boot without sysfs should at be able to > boot a test kernel now. > > Plus no ABIs are harmed with this patch. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Duh. Tested-by: Serge Hallyn Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Thanks, Eric! Thanks, Benjamin! -serge