> Quoting Benjamin Thery (
benjamin.thery@bull.net):
> > Greg,
> >
> > Here is an updated version of the sysfs tagged directories that improves
> > a bit the situation over the previous one.
> >
> > I've modified the patch 09 ("Enable tagging for net_class directories in
> > sysfs") to be a bit less intrusive in sysfs core. I removed the #ifdef'd
> > parts you didn't like in fs/sysfs/mount.c, and replaced it by a generic
> > routine sysfs_ns_exit() that is called, if needed, by the namespace when
> > it exits. This routine goes through every sysfs super blocks and calls
> > the callback passed by the namespace to clean its tag.
> >
> > The patch is now splitted in two:
> > * 09/11: the generic routine,
> > * 10/11: the remaining network parts.
> >
> > The generic part can be merge with patch 05 ("sysfs: Implement sysfs
> > tagged directory support.") but I left it separate for now to ease
> > reviews.
>
> Thanks. Not nearly as radical as I'd feared.
>
> Greg, does this address your concern? It stops the need to put any
> non-braindead code (i.e. the _exit notifier stuff) in fs/sysfs/mount.c for
> any new namespaces needing sysfs tagging, leaving only simple
> comparison/assignments.
