Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:24:17 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4][RFC] netns: sysfs: add a netns suffix to net device sysfs entries |
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 02:08:26PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes: > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 05:21:44PM +0200, Benjamin Thery wrote: > >> Network devices from sub-network namespaces appear in sysfs > >> with a name that looks like this: device_name@netns_id > >> eg: lo@3, eth0@4e > > > > How does the default udev rules as shipped by most distros handle the > > renaming of the network device if the MAC address is duplicated like it > > will be for these eth devices? > > The mac address is not duplicated.
Ah, ok, I really don't think I want to know more :)
> Further devices like eth0@4e are completely unusable to the udev > rules in the initial network namespace because they can not talk > to or affect them.
Oh, good point.
> As I read it Ben's ``solution'' puts entries in sysfs that are > completely unusable to udev.
That's not a good thing to do, if udev can't see them, than HAL can't see them, then the rest of userspace usually has no idea they are present either.
thanks,
greg k-h
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