linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET] sysfs: disentangle kobject namespace handling from sysfs

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <87eh8u4slj.fsf@xmission.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Sep 2013 20:38:32 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kay@...y.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, lizefan@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] sysfs: disentangle kobject namespace handling from sysfs

Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:29:02PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'll send out multiple patchsets to separate out sysfs from driver
>> core and kobject.  The eventual goal is making sysfs modular enough so
>> that cgroup can replace its nightmarish cgroupfs implementation which
>> repeated and worsened all the past mistakes of sysfs.  This patchset
>> is first of the effort and separates out kobject namespace handling
>> from sysfs.
>> 
>> I never really understood why namespace support was added the way it
>> was added.
>
> I just took the patches and didn't ask questions :)

Greg you don't get to play dumb you asked questions and required most of
the current strucuture of the code.

The code is convoluted by your request.

Eric
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/