On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:27:07PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:50:14AM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > > > > Could you explain? I can see some inet_rtm_newaddr > > interrupted. For me it could be e.g.: > > > > after > > vconfig add eth0 9 > > > > ip addr add dev eth0.9 ... > > Whether eth0.9 is up or not does not affect this at all. The spin > locks are initialised (and used) when the first IPv4 address is added, > not when the device comes up.
I understand this. I consider IFF_UP as a sign all initialisations (open functions including) are completed and there is permission for working (so logically, if I would do eth0.9 down all traffic should be stopped, what probably isn't true now). Jarek P. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
