Re: [PATCH 5/8] kernfs: let objects opt-in to propagating from the initial namespace

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 09:39:50PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Another problem is that you might have two devices of the same class
> with the same name that belong to different namespaces and if you shown
> them all in the initial namespace you get clashes. This was one of the
> original reasons why network devices are only shown in the namespace
> they belong to but not in any other.

For example, pid namespace has the same issue but it doesn't solve the problem
by breaking up visibility at the root level - it makes everything visiable at
root but give per-ns aliases which are selectively visble depending on the
namespace. From administration POV, this is way easier and less error-prone to
deal with and I was hoping that we could head that way rather than netdev way
for new things.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun