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

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Date:   Wed, 05 Jul 2017 09:20:32 +0100 (WEST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mahesh@...dewar.net
Cc:     jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net,
        edumazet@...gle.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        maheshb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] bring UP loopback device at initialziation

From: Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>
Date: Tue,  4 Jul 2017 12:16:15 -0700

> In almost every scenario the loopback device is brought UP after
> initialization. So there is no point of bringing up the device in
> DOWN state followed by device UP operation. This change exposed
> another issue of fib-trie initialization which is corrected in the 
> first path.

You use the word almost, which supports my position that someone may
not want this.

I also don't see it as so much of a burdon to bring the lo device up
explicitly.  Systems have been having to do that since the beginning
of time.

Sorry I'm not applying this.