From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] sysfs: disentangle kobject namespace handling from sysfs
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:38:32 -0700
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Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kay@vrfy.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, lizefan@huawei.com
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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	Sep 2013 20:19:12 -0700")
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Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:29:02PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'll send out multiple patchsets to separate out sysfs from driver
>> core and kobject.  The eventual goal is making sysfs modular enough so
>> that cgroup can replace its nightmarish cgroupfs implementation which
>> repeated and worsened all the past mistakes of sysfs.  This patchset
>> is first of the effort and separates out kobject namespace handling
>> from sysfs.
>> 
>> I never really understood why namespace support was added the way it
>> was added.
>
> I just took the patches and didn't ask questions :)

Greg you don't get to play dumb you asked questions and required most of
the current strucuture of the code.

The code is convoluted by your request.

Eric