netdev - Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

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Message-ID: <20091009172223.GA4649@kroah.com>
Date:	Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:22:23 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>
Cc:	Narendra K <narendra_k@...l.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hotplug@...r.kernel.org, jordan_hargrave@...l.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:17:24PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> 
> uevents aren't namespaced.  Presumably that means /dev can't be
> polyinstantiated.  Therefore, all devnodes in /dev/netdev/* will be
> visible to all processes, where 'ifconfig' and friends would only show
> device names in the processes namespace.  This doesn't mean the app
> can _do_ anything (it's the same as if it tried to act on a device
> using an ifindex for a device not in its namespace), but yes, the fact
> that such a device exists will be exposed.

That's the problem that the sysfs namespace patches were trying to
address.

Now I'm not saying it is a valid thing to try to work with this kind of
crazy, I was just wondering how it would work out.  Looks like it
doesn't :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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