netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver

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Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:52:34 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	dim@...nvz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, greearb@...delatech.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver

Johannes Berg wrote:
> Our virtual devices are always associated with a piece of hardware, and
> we really want them to be associated with that at all times, even when
> not UP. Everything else seems like a huge complication if only because
> then we can't have whoever will be responsible for the device allocate
> it's private space area.


Shouldn't be a problem either. Creating the device atomically also
prevents that anything else is setting them UP before they're fully
configured.
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