netdev - Re: [PATCH 10/11] avoid kobject name conflict with different namespaces

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Date:	Thu, 08 May 2008 12:28:19 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] avoid kobject name conflict with different namespaces

Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com> writes:

> On Wed, 07 May 2008 13:54:27 -0700,
> ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
>> > I thought that s390 also used it, but I don't see
>> > that usage in the tree anymore, perhaps they switched to something else.
>> 
>> That is the device_move -> kobject_move case. 
>
> Yes. bluetooth also uses it, IIRC.

Yes.

>> Very similar (and nice
>> if we can figure out how to combine them).
>
> Sounds like a good idea. I can test the _move() stuff (after I've
> managed to find some time to try this patchset...)

Do you remember if we have ever sorted out the race between _move
and module unload/directory teardown at the sysfs level?

Eric
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