Device Namespaces

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:25:56AM +0300, Janne Karhunen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> >> In summary the situation with device hoptlug and containers sucks today,
> >> and we need to do something.  Running a linux desktop in a container is
> >> a reasonably good example use case.
> >
> > No it isn't.  I'd argue that this is a horrible use case, one that you
> > shouldn't do.  Why not just use multi-head machines like people do who
> > really want to do this, relying on user separation?  That's a workable
> > solution that is quite common and works very well today.
> 
> I suppose so, but now you take the assumption that there is no
> need for running multiple Linux variants on the same host (say
> Ubuntu and Android side by side). Is this something you would
> not like to see done?

You can do that today without any need for device namespaces, so why is
this an issue here?

greg k-h