netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] bring UP loopback device at initialziation

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Date:   Wed, 5 Jul 2017 10:48:56 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार) 
        <maheshb@...gle.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        linux-netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] bring UP loopback device at initialziation

On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
<maheshb@...gle.com> wrote:
> Systems have only one lo device (since ages) and that is usually taken
> care at the boot time. Now with the namespaces it's not just one
> device as it's per namespace and though not much this patch will
> benefit a little. Probably we should ask a question - is it going to
> have any bad effects? I couldn't find any and my RFC patch did not get
> me any such feedback. As far as the good effects are concerned, it has
> already found a bug (another patch in this series)! Also sometime back
> I did experience weird behavior inside net-namespace if you forget to
> bring-up the loopback device. I didn't pay too much attention as
> bringing up the lo device fixed it.
>

I wonder if it is too late to change this since this behavior is probably
from the beginning of network namespace. A networkless netns is also
useful at least for testing purpose, we do use it as a sandbox.