Net containers config and usage

[Daniel Lezcano]

chris at versecorp.net wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:50:29AM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>   
>> Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>     
>>> As far as I recall, if you have sysfs active and use the sysfs patch to
>>> let you configure both sysfs and network namespaces, you can only move
>>> virtual interfaces into a network namespace.
>>>
>>> Guenter
>>>  
>>>       
>> Ah ! yes, you are right :)
>>
>> The current upstream implementation allowing sysfs and netns to coexist 
>> together has one restriction, the physical network devices can not be 
>> moved if sysfs is enabled in the kernel. This is why Chris can not move 
>> the physical network device with this version of the kernel.
>> This restriction will be set until the sysfs per namespace is fully 
>> supported.
>>
>> This restriction does not exist with with the previous kernel version 
>> with the sysfs per namespace patchset.
>>
>> -- Daniel
>>
>>     
>
> Ah, great, thanks to all for your help on this.
> Do you have any rough estimate when the support for sysfs per namespace will
>   
The sysfs per namespace has been rejected because of some design 
problems related with the sysfs itself.
Perhaps Eric can tell more about that...