> Quoting Daniel Lezcano (
dlezcano@fr.ibm.com):
>> 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.
>
>>
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?
