linux-kernel - Re: [Patch03/05]- Containers: Initialization and Configfs interface

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Message-Id: <200609191538.k8JFc6cY022534@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:38:06 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	rohitseth@...gle.com
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, devel@...nvz.org,
	CKRM-Tech <ckrm-tech@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch03/05]- Containers: Initialization and Configfs interface

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:41:26 PDT, Rohit Seth said:

> --- linux-2.6.18-rc6-mm2.org/kernel/container_configfs.c	1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
> +++ linux-2.6.18-rc6-mm2.ctn/kernel/container_configfs.c	2006-09-14 16:18:45.000000000 -0700

> +static ssize_t simple_containerfs_attr_show(struct config_item *item,
> +		struct configfs_attribute *attr,
> +		char *page)
...
> +	switch (ctfs_attr->idx) {
> +	case CONFIGFS_CTN_ATTR_ID:
> +		tmp = sc->ctn.id;
> +		break;
...
> +	return sprintf(page, "%ld\n", tmp);

What use is this value, given that we already have containers/user_friendly_name
to use in the filesystem namespace?  Or is this a mostly-debugging thing?

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