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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:12:04 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: greearb@...il.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, greearb@...delatech.com Subject: Re: [iproute2] iproute2: Allow 'ip addr flush' to loop more than 10 times. From: greearb@...il.com Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:55:59 -0700 > From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> > > The default remains at 10 for backwards compatibility. > > For instance: > # ip addr flush dev eth2 > *** Flush remains incomplete after 10 rounds. *** > # ip -l 20 addr flush dev eth2 > *** Flush remains incomplete after 20 rounds. *** > # ip -loops 0 addr flush dev eth2 > # > > This is useful for getting rid of large numbers of IP > addresses in scripts. > > Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> I would suggest to instead add some logic to this code to detect that forward progress is being made. I really don't see any value in having a hard limit that triggers on a bulk delete when no other address changing activity is happening in the system. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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