Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:20:46 +0100 | From | Daniel Lezcano <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/1][RFC]Handle uevent per namespace |
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Kay Sievers wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:50, Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> wrote: > > struct kobject { > const char *name; > struct list_head entry; > @@ -63,6 +65,9 @@ struct kobject { > struct kset *kset; > struct kobj_type *ktype; > struct sysfs_dirent *sd; > +#ifdef CONFIG_NET > + struct net *net; > +#endif > struct kref kref; > unsigned int state_initialized:1; > unsigned int state_in_sysfs:1; > > We cannot do that. Network specific stuff does not belong into > kobjects. Kobjects are not in any way subsystem specific, and we need > to keep it that way.
That makes sense :)
Is there a way to follow up from the kobject, the netdev associated with it ? I mean in the function kobject_uevent_env, how can I check the event is related to a network device and retrieve the struct net_device from it ?
Thanks. -- Daniel
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