tree 3ccf11ecce77d13d929b4f17b583e05bb3ffa495
parent 7c510e4b730a92cecf94ada45c989d8be0200d47
author Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> 1225155107 -0700
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1225155107 -0700

netns: Coexist with the sysfs limitations v2

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.

Changelog:

v2: As pointed out by Benjamin Thery it only makes sense to call
    device_rename in the initial network namespace for now.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>