netdev - Re: [RFC] ipv6: don't flush routes when setting loopback down

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Message-Id: <20101216.182656.226781473.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:26:56 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, brian.haley@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	maheshkelkar@...il.com, lorenzo@...gle.com,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ipv6: don't flush routes when setting loopback down

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:18:13 -0800

> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> writes:
> 
>> When loopback device is being brought down, then keep the route table
>> entries because they are special. The entries in the local table for
>> linklocal routes and ::1 address should not be purged.
>>
>> This is a sub optimal solution to the problem and should be replaced
>> by a better fix in future.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> 
> Stephen thanks for this.  This patch looks good to me.  I just tested
> this against 2.6.37-rc6 and my simple tests show it to be working
> without problems.
> 
> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

Applied to net-2.6, thanks everyone.
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