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From: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Jens Axboe" <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Serge Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Saravana Kannan" <saravanak@google.com>,
	"Jan Kara" <jack@suse.cz>, "David Howells" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	"Seth Forshee" <seth.forshee@canonical.com>,
	"David Rheinsberg" <david.rheinsberg@gmail.com>,
	"Tom Gundersen" <teg@jklm.no>,
	"Christian Kellner" <ckellner@redhat.com>,
	"Dmitry Vyukov" <dvyukov@google.com>,
	"Stéphane Graber" <stgraber@ubuntu.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] genhd: add minimal namespace infrastructure
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 21:42:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200413194218.trqz3362k4y2v7ob@wittgenstein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200413190452.GH60335@mtj.duckdns.org>

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 03:04:52PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 05:21:49PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > This lets the block_class properly support loopfs device by introducing
> > the minimal infrastructure needed to support different sysfs views for
> > devices belonging to the block_class. This is similar to how network
> > devices work. Note, that nothing changes with this patch since
> 
> I was hoping that all devices on the system would be visible at the root level
> as administration at system level becomes pretty tricky otherwise. Is it just
> me who thinks this way?

Hey Tejun,

I think this is the same question in a different form you had in
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200413193950.tokh5m7wsyrous3c@wittgenstein/T/#m20b396a29c8d499d9dc073e6aef38f38c08f8bbe
and I tried answered it there.

Thanks!
Christian

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-13 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-08 15:21 [PATCH 0/8] loopfs Christian Brauner
2020-04-08 15:21 ` [PATCH 1/8] kobject_uevent: remove unneeded netlink_ns check Christian Brauner
2020-04-08 15:21 ` [PATCH 2/8] loopfs: implement loopfs Christian Brauner
2020-04-09  5:39   ` David Rheinsberg
2020-04-09  8:26     ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-12 10:38       ` David Rheinsberg
2020-04-12 12:03         ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-12 13:04           ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-12 13:44           ` David Rheinsberg
2020-04-09  7:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-09  8:33     ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-08 15:21 ` [PATCH 3/8] loop: use ns_capable for some loop operations Christian Brauner
2020-04-08 15:21 ` [PATCH 4/8] kernfs: handle multiple namespace tags Christian Brauner
2020-04-13 18:46   ` Tejun Heo
2020-04-08 15:21 ` [PATCH 5/8] kernfs: let objects opt-in to propagating from the initial namespace Christian Brauner
2020-04-13 19:02   ` Tejun Heo
2020-04-13 19:39     ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-13 19:45       ` Tejun Heo
2020-04-13 19:59         ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-13 20:37           ` Tejun Heo
2020-04-14 10:39             ` Christian Brauner
2020-04-08 15:21 ` [PATCH 6/8] genhd: add minimal namespace infrastructure Christian Brauner
2020-04-13 19:04   ` Tejun Heo
2020-04-13 19:42     ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2020-04-08 15:21 ` [PATCH 7/8] loopfs: start attaching correct namespace during loop_add() Christian Brauner
2020-04-08 15:21 ` [PATCH 8/8] loopfs: only show devices in their correct instance Christian Brauner
2020-04-08 16:24 ` [PATCH 0/8] loopfs Jann Horn
2020-04-08 16:41   ` Stéphane Graber
2020-04-09  7:02     ` Dmitry Vyukov

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