Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:56:33 +0200 | From | Benjamin Thery <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4][RFC] netns: sysfs: add a netns suffix to net device sysfs entries |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > 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.
In fact, I feared that would be an issue before I sent the patches. Thanks for confirming this.
But, as this alternative was discussed a bit after Al's comments on your last patches, I had to give it a try and code a proof-of-concept.
Benjamin
> > That user space visible ida you add is a namespace identifier that breaks > nested containers and migration. It is very very very wrong. > > Eric > > >
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