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Re: [IPV4] Make loopback idev stick around

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IPV4] Make loopback idev stick around
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:35:32 +1100
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On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 04:30:30PM +1100, herbert wrote:
> 
> As it is when loopback_dev loses all of its IPv4 addresses its
> corresponding idev will be destroyed.  Unfortunately as of last
> August route.c relies on the loopback idev to kill references
> to other idev objects.

The same problem exists for IPv6.
 
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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