Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

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

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Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

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Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):

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"Serge E. Hallyn" [off-list ref] writes:

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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?

I will resend the patchset on top of 2.6.26-rc1,
with Daniel's last patch merged.

(If anyone prefer to have it merged on top of net-2.6, say so)

-benjamin

thanks,
-serge

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