Re: [patch 1/1][RFC]Handle uevent per namespace

[Daniel Lezcano]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:50:34AM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>
> > Subject: Handle uevent per namespace
> > From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > At present when a network device is destroyed, inside a network
> > namespace, and this device has the same name as one network device
> > belonging to the initial network namespace (eg. eth0), the udev daemon
> > will disable the interface in the initial network namespace.
> >
> > IMHO, udev should not receive this event. The uevents should be per
> > namespace or at least do not send events when not for the initial
> > network namespace.
>
> IMHO, network namespaces are a mess and not something that you should be
> doing at all :)
>
> > The following patch is a RFC for making uevent namespace aware. I don't
> > know this part of the kernel code, so I am pretty sure t is not the 
> > right way to do that :) 
>
> Like Kay said, please don't change the kobject core for this, try just
> filtering in the network core the events that you handle there.

Oh, why I didn't think about that :)
That will be a cleaner and a smaller patch.

Thanks.
  -- Daniel
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