Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx): > > To make testing of the network namespace simpler allow > the network namespace code and the sysfs code to be > compiled and run at the same time. To do this only > virtual devices are allowed in the additional network > namespaces and those virtual devices are not placed > in the kobject tree. > > Since virtual devices don't actually do anything interesting > hardware wise that needs device management there should > be no loss in keeping them out of the kobject tree and > by implication sysfs. The gain in ease of testing > and code coverage should be significant. > > I.e. people running distributions that make it next to > impossible to boot without sysfs should at be able to > boot a test kernel now. > > Plus no ABIs are harmed with this patch. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Duh. Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, Eric! Thanks, Benjamin! -serge _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
