netdev - Why is gre0 auto-created, and can we fix it?

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Date:	Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:49:50 -0800
From:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Why is gre0 auto-created, and can we fix it?

While trying to figure out why 'gre0' doesn't
go away properly in my application, I noticed that
it is auto-created if you just run 'ifconfig gre0'.
(Same thing happens if you use 'ip link show gre0')

As far as I can tell, no other interfaces are auto-created
in this manner.

If I cook up a patch to 'fix' this, would it be acceptable,
or are we stuck with the current behaviour for backwards-compat
reasons?

[root@...2010-ath9k-1 lanforge]# rmmod ip_gre
[root@...2010-ath9k-1 lanforge]# ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
     link/ether 00:90:0b:13:ed:ea brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
     link/ether 00:90:0b:13:ed:eb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
[root@...2010-ath9k-1 lanforge]# ifconfig gre0
gre0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-01-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
           NOARP  MTU:1476  Metric:1

[root@...2010-ath9k-1 lanforge]# ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
     link/ether 00:90:0b:13:ed:ea brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
     link/ether 00:90:0b:13:ed:eb brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
76: gre0: <NOARP> mtu 1476 qdisc noop state DOWN
     link/gre 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
[root@...2010-ath9k-1 lanforge]# ifconfig tap0
tap0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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