On Fri, 17 Apr, at 03:49:24PM, Greg KH wrote: > > Not really, the kernel namespace is what matters at that point in time. > > And maybe it does matter, I haven't thought through all of the issues. > But passing a path from userspace, to the kernel, to have the kernel > turn around again and use that path is full of nasty consequences at > times due to namespaces, let's avoid all of that please.
Oh crap. The namespace issue is a good point and not something I'd thought of at all. At this point, I think we've really run out of objections to Andy's suggestion of implementing this as a misc device, right? The concern I had about userspace tooling can partly be addressed by including the source in tools/ in the kernel tree. So provided we do that, I'm happy enough to see this implemented as a misc device because the other options we've explored just haven't panned out. Objections? -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
