From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:25:39 -0800
> > I was recently hunting a bug that occurred in network namespace > cleanup. In looking at the code it became apparrent that we have > and will continue to have cases where if we have anything going > on in a network namespace there will be assumptions that the > loopback device is present. Things like sending igmp unsubscribe > messages when we bring down network devices invokes the routing > code which assumes that at least the loopback driver is present. > > Therefore to avoid magic initcall ordering hackery that is hard > to follow and hard to get right insert a call to register the > loopback device directly from net_dev_init(). This guarantes > that the loopback device is the first device registered and > the last network device to go away. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied. _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@openvz.org https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
