Subject: Re: [PATCH] netns: Coexist with the sysfs limitations

From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:21:24 -0500

Quoting Eric W. Biederman ([email-masked]):
> 
> To make testing of the network namespace simpler allow
> the network namespace code and the sysfs code to be
> compiled and run at the same time.  To do this only
> virtual devices are allowed in the additional network
> namespaces and those virtual devices are not placed
> in the kobject tree.
> 
> Since virtual devices don't actually do anything interesting
> hardware wise that needs device management there should
> be no loss in keeping them out of the kobject tree and
> by implication sysfs.  The gain in ease of testing
> and code coverage should be significant.
> 
> I.e. people running distributions that make it next to
> impossible to boot without sysfs should at be able to
> boot a test kernel now.
> 
> Plus no ABIs are harmed with this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email-masked]>

Duh.

Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <[email-masked]>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <[email-masked]>

Thanks, Eric!  Thanks, Benjamin!

-serge