From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] ipip: allow to deactivate the creation of fb dev Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:29:26 -0800 Message-ID: <20121116082926.1c6cccd2@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: <1353082456-21234-1-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> <1353082456-21234-2-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net To: Nicolas Dichtel Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:40295 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752592Ab2KPQac (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:30:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1353082456-21234-2-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:14:13 +0100 Nicolas Dichtel wrote: > Now that tunnels can be configured via rtnetlink, this device is not mandatory. > The default is conservative. > > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel Although I am in favor of reducing clutter, and we even have to put in special case code to ignore these stub devices in the Vyatta scripts. Module parameters are bit of a nuisance to deal with, but maybe the only way for this kind of thing and keep the required ABI. Not sure if I can fully endorse this. The device may still have uses. It is still useful for capturing "none of the above" packets and is used to auto-load module via module aliases.