linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] netns support in the kobject layer

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Message-ID: <20100517210318.GA6170@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 17 May 2010 14:03:18 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	kay.sievers@...y.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tj@...nel.org,
	cornelia.huck@...ibm.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, bcrl@...et.ca,
	serue@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] netns support in the kobject layer

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 01:58:44PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:26:43PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >> From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
> >> Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 13:04:04 -0700
> >> 
> >> > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 05:35:54PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> >> 
> >> >> With the tagged sysfs support finally merged into Greg's tree,
> >> >> it is time for the last little bits of work to get the kobject
> >> >> layer and network namespaces to play together properly.
> >> >> 
> >> >> These patches are roughly evenly divided between network layer work
> >> >> and sysfs layer work.  Last time this conundrum came up I believe
> >> >> we decided that the easiest way to handle this was for Greg to carry
> >> >> all of the patches.  David, Greg does that still make sense?
> >> > 
> >> > That's fine, if I get David's ack on these.
> >> 
> >> Looks good to me:
> >> 
> >> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> >
> > Ok.  Eric, can you resend these to me when .35-rc1 is out so I can queue
> > them up then to get some testing in linux-next so that they can make it
> > into .36?
> 
> Grumble.  Grumble. Grumble.
> 
> If I must I will resend these, but these patches are already in
> production use, and I had them to you weeks before the merge window
> closed.

Yes, but they were not reviewed by the network maintainer until after
the merge window closed.  I already have your sysfs-namespace patches
queued up for .35, and that's a big enough change for me to feel
comfortable with at the moment.

> Is there no way we can get these in for 2.6.35?

No, sorry.  One thing at a time please.

thanks,

greg k-h
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