Quoting Daniel Lezcano (dlezcano@fr.ibm.com):
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> Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>> Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
>>> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
>>>> Ok as it turns out Benjamin Thery does in fact have a patch to fix this.
>>>> Benjamin, please send your renaming patch out tomorrow if you can?
>>>>
>>>> I guess this is why I didn't really see the problem Benjamin said there
>>>> was - it just works with SYSFS_DEPRECATED  :)
>>> It will be nice to see that patch.  I'm curious what the problem was.
>>>
>>> Eric
>> Here is the patch he had privately sent.  As the comments indicate he's
>> still refining it so yell at me not him...   but this on top of the
>> tagged dir patchset makes everything work for me.
>> (I'd *really* like to see network namespaces be generally usable sometime
>> in 2.6.26.)
>
> Serge,
>
> I posted a fix to Dave Miller which was included in net-2.6 and merged in 
> 2.6.26-rc1.

Cool, I see it in gitweb, thanks.

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> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=120959135229360&w=2
>
> This one should fix your problem for sysfs.
>
> There is another fix to do in order to avoid name conflicts with network 
> interfaces belonging to different namespaces, eg. allows to rename veth1234 
> to eth0 without conflicting with the network device belonging in init_net, 
> I send this patch to container@ first to have it merged with the sysfs 
> patchset.

Ok.

Benjamin, what are you doing with Eric's sysfs patchset then?  Are you
going to re-post it asap on top of whatever tree has these two patches,
or are you planning to wait longer?

thanks,
-serge
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