Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Daniel Lezcano wrote: >> Actually the CONFIG_NET_NS is depending on CONFIG_NET and !CONFIG_SYSFS >> >> In order to disable CONFIG_SYSFS, I must specify CONFIG_EMBEDDED to have >> the choice to unset the sysfs. >> >> Why don't we make CONFIG_NET_NS depends on CONFIG_NET and >> CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED ? >> > > AFAIK the SYSFS_DEPRECATED hides the sysfs functionality (files) > that is not recommended to use, but doesn't disable the sysfs > filesystem as is. On the other hand the NET_NS doesn't require > any deprecated sysfs files, it just can't work at all with the > SYSFS turned on. > > That's why the things look like this. Exactly. Once we get the sysfs support merged this restriction will go away but until then attempting to register a two copies of the loopback device with sysfs is fatal. Eric _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
