lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2008]   [Oct]   [22]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
Date
SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4][RFC] netns: sysfs: add a netns suffix to net device sysfs entries
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



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2008-10-22 22:07    [W:0.057 / U:1.260 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site