From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] avoid kobject name conflict with different namespaces Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 12:28:19 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20080506173030.653828076@theryb.frec.bull.fr> <20080506173335.922289888@theryb.frec.bull.fr> <20080507190838.GA4467@suse.de> <20080508102844.25642ef7@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Greg KH , Benjamin Thery , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Al Viro , Daniel Lezcano , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Pavel Emelyanov , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Cornelia Huck Return-path: Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:48718 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752147AbYEHTaE (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2008 15:30:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080508102844.25642ef7@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (Cornelia Huck's message of "Thu, 8 May 2008 10:28:44 +0200") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Cornelia Huck writes: > On Wed, 07 May 2008 13:54:27 -0700, > ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > >> > I thought that s390 also used it, but I don't see >> > that usage in the tree anymore, perhaps they switched to something else. >> >> That is the device_move -> kobject_move case. > > Yes. bluetooth also uses it, IIRC. Yes. >> Very similar (and nice >> if we can figure out how to combine them). > > Sounds like a good idea. I can test the _move() stuff (after I've > managed to find some time to try this patchset...) Do you remember if we have ever sorted out the race between _move and module unload/directory teardown at the sysfs level? Eric