Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 May 2008 12:08:38 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 10/11] avoid kobject name conflict with different namespaces |
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On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 11:49:19AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Unless there is another path I think placing an additional pointer in > kobj_type so we can find it through ktype is the simplest solution. > Although using the kset is also sane.
Ick, ick, ick :)
> The easiest and most trivially correct thing to do would be to simply > remove the unnecessary check from kobject_rename. We perform the > check at the upper levels in the network anyway. And kobject_rename > is only used by the network stack.
Wireless uses it also for some things, and it requires that it fail if a duplicate is found. I thought that s390 also used it, but I don't see that usage in the tree anymore, perhaps they switched to something else.
good luck,
greg k-h
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