From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E76BC43143 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2018 04:46:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D65FF2084C for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2018 04:46:04 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="0pmRQYt3" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org D65FF2084C Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728665AbeJALVt (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2018 07:21:49 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:60568 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728555AbeJALVt (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2018 07:21:49 -0400 Received: from mail-wm1-f43.google.com (mail-wm1-f43.google.com [209.85.128.43]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 775242084C for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2018 04:45:57 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1538369157; bh=Oz4MD9ulqgiPpBV4N6UJT6EIyCAPxpMNroxld2O3ViY=; h=References:In-Reply-To:From:Date:Subject:To:Cc:From; b=0pmRQYt3sqQ0X1M8SR8awWaejILf746CPihCUPxyVFEdoWQfthpA1dIitVN8GLovB IoSvjEJTr7ZsHxApnKUyDzRsezQ2qFjPk6DQe+Z9PQn+96et3rSpBDbzdDrB50ef7i hdMs1No5yV53OWhPVM7EeBG+pzEqHH+bDJOCLzbg= Received: by mail-wm1-f43.google.com with SMTP id n23-v6so7245752wmc.1 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:45:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: ABuFfohgNjWkOKGQwMwY64k8Vodi9Px1SZPlNNFALwST3pOqTcALY7Ph ScmLHFxjhXIilwoMogoDbZkdK6Epib23JKCCdWtO0w== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACcGV60lbbgQmoa4r/7+A+WzlhaSBaZjpSlJqo4jkEagf2bWaaGFPGXV9xm3Xt71jA2/TNO10YqmyGmPH3We/uxnXpM= X-Received: by 2002:a1c:9355:: with SMTP id v82-v6mr7613505wmd.128.1538369155896; Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:45:55 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20180930234628.25528-1-laurent@vivier.eu> In-Reply-To: <20180930234628.25528-1-laurent@vivier.eu> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:45:44 -0700 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] ns: introduce binfmt_misc namespace To: laurent@vivier.eu Cc: LKML , Linux FS Devel , James Bottomley , Al Viro , Linux API , "Eric W. Biederman" , Dmitry Safonov , Andrey Vagin , Linux Containers Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 4:47 PM Laurent Vivier wrote: > > This series introduces a new namespace for binfmt_misc. > This seems conceptually quite reasonable, but I'm wondering if the number of namespace types is getting out of hand given the current API. Should we be considering whether we need a new set of namespace creation APIs that scale better to larger numbers of namespace types?