[patch 1/1][RFC]Handle uevent per namespace

Daniel Lezcano dlezcano at fr.ibm.com
Mon Nov 24 07:55:10 PST 2008


Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:50:34AM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> 
>> Subject: Handle uevent per namespace
>> From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano at fr.ibm.com>
>>
>> At present when a network device is destroyed, inside a network
>> namespace, and this device has the same name as one network device
>> belonging to the initial network namespace (eg. eth0), the udev daemon
>> will disable the interface in the initial network namespace.
>>
>> IMHO, udev should not receive this event. The uevents should be per
>> namespace or at least do not send events when not for the initial
>> network namespace.
> 
> IMHO, network namespaces are a mess and not something that you should be
> doing at all :)
> 
>> The following patch is a RFC for making uevent namespace aware. I don't
>> know this part of the kernel code, so I am pretty sure t is not the 
>> right way to do that :) 
> 
> Like Kay said, please don't change the kobject core for this, try just
> filtering in the network core the events that you handle there.

Oh, why I didn't think about that :)
That will be a cleaner and a smaller patch.

Thanks.
   -- Daniel


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