On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 02:08:26PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 05:21:44PM +0200, Benjamin Thery wrote: > >> Network devices from sub-network namespaces appear in sysfs > >> with a name that looks like this: device_name@netns_id > >> eg: lo@3, eth0@4e > > > > How does the default udev rules as shipped by most distros handle the > > renaming of the network device if the MAC address is duplicated like it > > will be for these eth devices? > > The mac address is not duplicated. Ah, ok, I really don't think I want to know more :) > Further devices like eth0@4e are completely unusable to the udev > rules in the initial network namespace because they can not talk > to or affect them. Oh, good point. > As I read it Ben's ``solution'' puts entries in sysfs that are > completely unusable to udev. That's not a good thing to do, if udev can't see them, than HAL can't see them, then the rest of userspace usually has no idea they are present either. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
