From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] tagged sysfs support Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:09:46 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20100331172110.GA18838@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kay Sievers , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Cornelia Huck , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet , Benjamin LaHaise , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "Serge E. Hallyn" Return-path: Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:35526 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757910Ab0CaSJz (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:09:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100331172110.GA18838@us.ibm.com> (Serge E. Hallyn's message of "Wed\, 31 Mar 2010 12\:21\:10 -0500") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: "Serge E. Hallyn" writes: > Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com): >> >> The main short coming of using multiple network namespaces today >> is that only network devices for the primary network namespaces >> can be put in the kobject layer and sysfs. >> >> This is essentially the earlier version of this patchset that was >> reviewed before, just now on top of a version of sysfs that doesn't >> need cleanup patches to support it. >> >> I have been running these patches in some form for well over a >> year so the basics should at least be solid. >> >> This patchset is currently against 2.6.34-rc1. >> >> This patchset is just the basic infrastructure a couple of more pretty >> trivial patches are needed to actually enable network namespaces to use this. >> My current plan is to send those after these patches have made it through >> review. > > Thanks very much for keeping this going, Eric! I'm going to keep > looking through the code some more, but so far I see no problems. > > Acked-by: Serge Hallyn > > to the full patchset. I'm really hoping you'll also include the > patch to implement the netns support (i.e. basically commit > fdc0adeaa8bfab9a179e1eb349cab400ddb70403 that you sent inline this > morning to Tejun). One step at a time. My goal is to have it all send out and reviewed in time for 2.6.35. Eric