From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4][RFC] netns: sysfs: add a netns suffix to net device sysfs entries
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:59:29 -0700
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Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> writes:

> Support for network namespaces in mainline is pretty complete for
> some time now, but there is still this issue with sysfs that prevents 
> more people to use it easily.

Ben your patchset is completely inappropriate.

Temporarily adding elements to the ABI that we intend to remove
is not a proper solution to this problem.

That user space visible ida you add is a namespace identifier that breaks
nested containers and migration.  It is very very very wrong.

Eric