Re: [PATCH 0/6] netns support in the kobject layer

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon May 17 2010 - 17:03:36 EST


On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 01:58:44PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:26:43PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >> From: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 13:04:04 -0700
> >>
> >> > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 05:35:54PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> With the tagged sysfs support finally merged into Greg's tree,
> >> >> it is time for the last little bits of work to get the kobject
> >> >> layer and network namespaces to play together properly.
> >> >>
> >> >> These patches are roughly evenly divided between network layer work
> >> >> and sysfs layer work. Last time this conundrum came up I believe
> >> >> we decided that the easiest way to handle this was for Greg to carry
> >> >> all of the patches. David, Greg does that still make sense?
> >> >
> >> > That's fine, if I get David's ack on these.
> >>
> >> Looks good to me:
> >>
> >> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Ok. Eric, can you resend these to me when .35-rc1 is out so I can queue
> > them up then to get some testing in linux-next so that they can make it
> > into .36?
>
> Grumble. Grumble. Grumble.
>
> If I must I will resend these, but these patches are already in
> production use, and I had them to you weeks before the merge window
> closed.

Yes, but they were not reviewed by the network maintainer until after
the merge window closed. I already have your sysfs-namespace patches
queued up for .35, and that's a big enough change for me to feel
comfortable with at the moment.

> Is there no way we can get these in for 2.6.35?

No, sorry. One thing at a time please.

thanks,

greg k-h
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