linux-kernel - Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet

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Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:23:57 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: sysfs: tagged directories not merged completely yet

Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net> writes:
>
> Oh.
> It's a pity Al couldn't re-review them before. We've already lost a lot
> of time with this patchset and it's blocking easier testing of network
> namespaces (right now, with a mainline kernel, we have to disable sysfs
> to build network namespaces).

I am confident that we have a good base with these patches and the rest of
the work can be done incrementally on top of them if any issues turn up.

Al recent rework of sysctl has a very similar structure.

> Thanks anyway. It's a good step to have it in a tree.

Yes.  That should prevent other changes out there from surprising
us.

Eric


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