linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/15] sysfs support for namespaces

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Message-ID: <20080707134101.518734a9@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:41:01 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] sysfs support for namespaces

On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:42:57 -0700,
ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> 
> > These patches are based off of 2.6.26-rc8 + the -gregkh tree from
> > last night.  Hopefully that means they apply -mm -gregkh and
> > -linux-next.
> 
> A quick update.   My patchset conflicts with the recently added
>   driver-core-suppress-sysfs-warnings-for-device_rename.patch
> 
> > driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().
> > 
> > Renaming network devices to an already existing name is not
> > something we want sysfs to print a scary warning for, since the
> > callers can deal with this correctly. So let's introduce
> > sysfs_create_link_nowarn() which gets rid of the common warning.
> 
> This patch is unnecessary as that path is never exercised anymore.
> as: dev_change_name returns early in the case of a noop rename.

My impression was that the networking folks didn't want any warnings for
renaming failures, not just not for renaming a device to the same name.

> 
> In addition my introduction sysfs_rename_link handles this case
> cleanly by first removing the old link and then creating the new
> link.  Preventing false positives when the link names are the same.

sysfs_rename_link() looks cleaner, I agree.

> 
> So it should be safe to drop Cornelia patch without a reoccurance
> of scary errors.

Hm, the description looks badly worded - I unfortunately left the old
text unchanged when I respun the patch :( The patch re-introduces the
warning in sysfs_add_one() which had been removed in the meanwhile and
makes device_rename() use a non-warning version. I still think we want
a warning for the general case since this is usually caused be some
problems in the calling code (and the alternative would be to add
checks to all callers.)
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