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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:20:09 +0300
From: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederman@lnxi.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: dst_ifdown breaks infiniband?
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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