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

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Nov 24 2008 - 10:42:37 EST


On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:50:34AM +0100, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>

> Subject: Handle uevent per namespace
> From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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.

good luck,

greg k-h
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