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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>, Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>,
Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
Denis Lunev <den@openvz.org>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4][RFC] netns: sysfs: add a netns suffix to net device sysfs entries
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:59:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1d4hso0ym.fsf@frodo.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081022152144.351965414@theryb.frec.bull.fr> (Benjamin Thery's message of "Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:21:44 +0200")
Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> writes:
> Support for network namespaces in mainline is pretty complete for
> some time now, but there is still this issue with sysfs that prevents
> more people to use it easily.
Ben your patchset is completely inappropriate.
Temporarily adding elements to the ABI that we intend to remove
is not a proper solution to this problem.
That user space visible ida you add is a namespace identifier that breaks
nested containers and migration. It is very very very wrong.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-22 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-22 15:21 Benjamin Thery
2008-10-22 15:21 ` [PATCH 1/4] netns: add in ida ID to identify the network namespace Benjamin Thery
2008-10-22 15:22 ` [PATCH 2/4] netns: Export nets id to /proc/net/netns Benjamin Thery
2008-10-22 15:22 ` [PATCH 3/4] net: cleanup some vars names to be more consistant with the network code Benjamin Thery
2008-10-22 15:22 ` [PATCH 4/4] netns: sysfs: add netns suffix to net devices sysfs entries Benjamin Thery
2008-10-22 19:59 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2008-10-22 20:30 ` [PATCH 0/4][RFC] netns: sysfs: add a netns suffix to net device " Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-22 21:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-22 21:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-10-22 22:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-23 4:14 ` Kyle Moffett
2008-10-23 11:56 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-10-23 15:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-22 20:16 ` Greg KH
2008-10-22 21:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-22 21:24 ` Greg KH
2008-10-22 20:32 ` [PATCH] netns: Coexist with the sysfs limitations Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-22 20:40 ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-10-22 21:21 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-23 8:04 ` Benjamin Thery
2008-10-23 15:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-23 15:56 ` [PATCH] netns: Coexist with the sysfs limitations v2 Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-27 19:41 ` David Miller
2008-10-27 20:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-10-28 0:50 ` David Miller
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