Greg KH wrote:
quoted text
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:30:30PM +0200, Benjamin Thery wrote:
>> This is still the same port of Eric Biederman's patchset to implement
>> tagged directories in sysfs that was discussed a few days ago.
>>
>> This time it applies on top of 2.6.26-rc1, 
>> which includes a fix from Daniel Lezcano to fix net device renaming
>> for sysfs (and of course all the network namespaces stuff that was 
>> committed in net-2.6.26).
>>
>> This patchset still contains the patch from Serge Hallyn that implements
>> tagging for user namespaces.
>>
>> It also contains a patch from Daniel Lezcano which allows to have net 
>> devices with the same name in two different network namespaces.
> 
> Does this all work properly with both CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED enabled
> and disabled?
> 
> Can you show some outputs of 'tree' in both cases on the /sys/class/net/
> directory?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Here is the output from an ls -l of /sys/class/net. I tryed with 
different configurations and checked the renamed network devices are 
propagated to the sysfs.

1) CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED && CONFIG_SYS && CONFIG_NET_NS
=========================================================

Outside a namespace:
--------------------

qemu:~> ip l
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,10000> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
     link/ether 52:54:00:12:34:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop
     link/ether 1e:43:9e:1f:1f:55 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
     link/ether 52:54:00:12:34:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
16: veth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
     link/ether 8e:94:e6:72:63:cf brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

qemu:~/lxc> ll /sys/class/net/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 2008-05-07 15:24 br0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-05-07 13:16 dummy0
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 2008-05-07 15:24 eth0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-05-07 13:16 lo
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 2008-05-07 15:26 veth1


Inside the namespace:
----------------------

qemu:~> ip l
14: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,10000> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
15: veth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 
1000
     link/ether 46:85:e5:76:90:05 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

virtnode:~lxc # ll /sys/class/net/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 May  7 15:28 lo
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 May  7 15:26 veth2

2) CONFIG_SYSFS && CONFIG_NET_NS
================================


Outside the namespace:
----------------------

qemu:~> ip l
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,10000> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
     link/ether 52:54:00:12:34:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop
     link/ether 72:16:3d:88:11:70 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
     link/ether 52:54:00:12:34:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
13: veth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
     link/ether aa:6f:e8:dd:b8:ba brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

  * Content of /sys/class/net:

qemu:~/lxc> ll /sys/class/net/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-05-07 14:31 br0 -> 
../../devices/virtual/net/br0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-05-07 14:28 dummy0 -> 
../../devices/virtual/net/dummy0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-05-07 14:28 eth0 -> 
../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/net/eth0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-05-07 14:28 lo -> ../../devices/virtual/net/lo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-05-07 14:35 veth1 -> 
../../devices/virtual/net/veth1

Inside the namespace:
----------------------

qemu:~> ip l
11: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,10000> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
12: veth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 
1000
     link/ether ee:c5:a3:7c:58:bd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

virtnode:~/lxc # ll /sys/class/net/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May  7 14:40 lo -> ../../devices/virtual/net/lo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 May  7 14:40 veth2 -> 
../../devices/virtual/net/veth2


3) CONFIG_SYSFS
===============

qemu:~> ip l
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,10000> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
     link/ether 52:54:00:12:34:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop
     link/ether 6e:3a:5f:2f:fa:cb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
     link/ether 52:54:00:12:34:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

qemu:~/lxc> ll /sys/class/net/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-05-07 15:01 br0 -> 
../../devices/virtual/net/br0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-05-07 14:59 dummy0 -> 
../../devices/virtual/net/dummy0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-05-07 14:59 eth0 -> 
../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/net/eth0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-05-07 14:59 lo -> ../../devices/virtual/net/lo

4) CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED && CONFIG_SYSFS
==========================================

qemu:~> ip l
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,10000> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
     link/ether 52:54:00:12:34:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop
     link/ether 16:85:f0:a8:34:44 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
     link/ether 52:54:00:12:34:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

qemu:~> ll /sys/class/net/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 2008-05-07 15:07 br0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-05-07 15:06 dummy0
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 2008-05-07 15:07 eth0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-05-07 15:06 lo
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