Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758137AbYJVUEw (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:04:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752282AbYJVUEk (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:04:40 -0400 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:57958 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751086AbYJVUEj (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:04:39 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Benjamin Thery Cc: netdev , Dave Miller , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Al Viro , Serge Hallyn , Daniel Lezcano , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Denis Lunev , Linux Containers References: <20081022152144.351965414@theryb.frec.bull.fr> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:59:29 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20081022152144.351965414@theryb.frec.bull.fr> (Benjamin Thery's message of "Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:21:44 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=mx04.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=24.130.11.59;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 24.130.11.59 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: too long (recipient list exceeded maximum allowed size of 128 bytes) X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa02 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;Benjamin Thery X-Spam-Relay-Country: X-Spam-Report: * -1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG * -0.7 BAYES_20 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 5 to 20% * [score: 0.1083] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa02 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] * 0.0 XM_SPF_Neutral SPF-Neutral Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4][RFC] netns: sysfs: add a netns suffix to net device sysfs entries X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:40:56 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mx04.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 767 Lines: 21 Benjamin Thery 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/