netdev - Re: [ofa-general] Re: dst_ifdown breaks infiniband?

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Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:20:09 +0300
From:	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederman@...i.com>
Cc:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@....mellanox.co.il>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: dst_ifdown breaks infiniband?

Hello!

> Well I don't think the loopback device is currently but as soon
> as we get network namespace support we will have multiple loopback
> devices and they will get unregistered when we remove the network
> namespace.

There is no logical difference. At the moment when namespace is gone
there is nobody who can hold unrevokable references to this loopback.

Alexey
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