Re: ip a flush problem on 2.6 kernels (fine on 2.4 kernels)

[Denis Vlasenko <vda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 04 March 2004 15:13, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 03:08:15 +0100
>
> Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The problem is that
> >
> > ip a a 192.168.0.1/24 dev eth0
> > ip link set eth0 down
> > ip a flush dev eth0
> >
> > Here on my vanilla 2.6.2 it locks eating CPU - it does netlink
> > communication over and over. This ,,hang'' doesn't happen when
> > interface is in UP state. Also doesn't happen on 2.4 kernels.
>
> I fixed it with this patch for iproute2 here. It's not clear to me at
> all how it ever worked before. The loop seems to be just wrong.

Does iproute2 have a homepage again? Where?
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