Re: [virtio-dev] Re: net_failover slave udev renaming (was Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v6 4/4] netvsc: refactor notifier/event handling code to use the bypass framework)

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Samudrala, Sridhar <>
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2019-02-22T07:00:15+00:00
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Re: [virtio-dev] Re: net_failover slave udev renaming (was Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v6 4/4] netvsc: refactor notifier/event handling code to use the bypass framework)
Is there an issue if slave device names are not predictable? The user/admin scripts are expected
to only work with the master failover device.
Moreover, you were suggesting hiding the lower slave devices anyway. There was some discussion
about moving them to a hidden network namespace so that they are not visible from the default namespace.
I looked into this sometime back, but did not find the right kernel api to create a network namespace within
kernel. If so, we could use this mechanism to simulate a 1-netdev model.