From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965865AbXCSPL5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:11:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965872AbXCSPL5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:11:57 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:47092 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965861AbXCSPLw (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:11:52 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: David Miller Cc: mst@dev.mellanox.co.il, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: dst_ifdown breaks infiniband? References: <20070318224234.GP11078@mellanox.co.il> <20070318.171337.112622504.davem@davemloft.net> <20070318.231316.59470365.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:10:16 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20070318.231316.59470365.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:13:16 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Miller writes: > I think the thing to do is to just leave the loopback references > in place, try to unregister the per-namespace loopback device, > and that will safely wait for all the references to go away. Right. The only thing I have found that needs to be changed so far in this area is specifying which loopback device I want to replace it with. > If you do it that way, you should need absolutely no changes to > the other code in this area. > > As per Herbert, I think he works on Xen rather than vserver :-) > Perhaps you're thinking of Alexey Kuznetsov or another one of the > vserver guys. I think you are thinking of a different Herbert. I was thinking of Herbert Poetzl the vserver maintainer. Alexey works on OpenVZ. Until we get the basic architecture merged they are rival projects. Eric