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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:47:19 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: ebiederm@...ssion.com Cc: greg@...ah.com, gregkh@...e.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, htejun@...il.com, dlezcano@...ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, viro@....linux.org.uk, containers@...ts.osdl.org, benjamin.thery@...l.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] netns: Enable tagging for net_class directories in sysfs From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:39:13 -0700 > > The problem. Network devices show up in sysfs and with the network > namespace active multiple devices with the same name can show up in > the same directory, ouch! > > To avoid that problem and allow existing applications in network namespaces > to see the same interface that is currently presented in sysfs, this > patch enables the tagging directory support in sysfs. > > By using the network namespace pointers as tags to separate out the > the sysfs directory entries we ensure that we don't have conflicts > in the directories and applications only see a limited set of > the network devices. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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