From: Mahesh Bandewar <mah...@bandewar.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.
