From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, khc@pm.waw.pl, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is gre0 auto-created, and can we fix it?
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:43:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120122114325.4a676e20@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120122.141447.1622071157220040891.davem@davemloft.net>
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:14:47 -0500 (EST)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:48:53 -0800
>
> > Just to make sure I understand you: You dislike any possible method
> > of changing the behaviour, not just the ones I listed?
>
> That's correct.
>
> And please don't create dependencies on such a change in behavior in
> distributions, otherwise you obliterate the entire reason why I don't
> want the behavior changed.
>
> There is no reason to change this, it's been like this for more than
> 10 years and no alien planet has exploded as a result even after all
> of this time.
>
> Just leave it be, I beg you.
Also, the iproute tunnel tools rely on the module autoload
of gre0.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-22 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-03 19:49 Why is gre0 auto-created, and can we fix it? Ben Greear
2012-01-03 19:59 ` David Miller
2012-01-03 20:03 ` Ben Greear
2012-01-03 20:11 ` David Miller
2012-01-21 17:39 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2012-01-21 17:48 ` Ben Greear
2012-01-21 18:40 ` David Miller
2012-01-22 16:48 ` Ben Greear
2012-01-22 19:14 ` David Miller
2012-01-22 19:43 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-01-22 21:00 ` Ben Greear
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