Re: [PATCH 09/15] sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support.

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Wed Aug 20 2008 - 03:04:41 EST


Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 06:16:08PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> The problem. When implementing a network namespace I need to be able
>> to have multiple network devices with the same name. Currently this
>> is a problem for /sys/class/net/*, /sys/devices/virtual/net/*, and
>> potentially a few other directories of the form /sys/ ... /net/*.
>
> <snip>
>
> I applied the patches up to here (well, patch 8 was no longer needed at
> all anymore), but this one doesn't apply at all.
>
> Care to respin these last few patches?

Sounds like a plan.

Looks like we are just talking about the driver core patches so while a pain
it actually should not be too hard.

I will get a copy of your gregkh tree from kernel.org tomorrow and see
what I can do.

Eric
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