netdev - Re: [net-2.6 patch 1/2][NETNS] fix device renaming for sysfs

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Date:	Fri, 02 May 2008 17:01:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dlezcano@...ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 patch 1/2][NETNS] fix device renaming for sysfs

From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:31:14 +0200

> When a netdev is moved across namespaces with the 'dev_change_net_namespace' 
> function, the 'device_rename' function is used to fixup kobject and refresh 
> the sysfs tree. The device_rename function will call kobject_rename and this
> one will check if there is an object with the same name and this is the case
> because we are renaming the object with the same name.
> 
> The use of 'device_rename' seems for me wrong because we usually don't
> rename it but just move it across namespaces. As we just want to do a 
> mini "netdev_[un]register", IMO the functions 'netdev_[un]register_kobject' 
> should be used instead, like an usual network device [un]registering.
> 
> This patch replace device_rename by netdev_unregister_kobject, followed by
> netdev_register_kobject.
> 
> The netdev_register_kobject will call device_initialize and will raise a 
> warning indicating the device was already initialized. In order to fix that,
> I split the device initialization into a separate function and use it together
> with 'netdev_register_kobject' into register_netdevice. So we can safely call
> 'netdev_register_kobject' in 'dev_change_net_namespace'.
> 
> This fix will allow to properly use the sysfs per namespace which is coming
> from -mm tree.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>

Looks good, applied.
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