From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian Haley Subject: Re: [PATCH] Skip down interfaces (v2) Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:22:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4BB4BA26.1050707@hp.com> References: <1270052634-8170-1-git-send-email-danms@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1270052634-8170-1-git-send-email-danms-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Dan Smith Cc: containers-qjLDD68F18O7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org Dan Smith wrote: > This makes the netns checkpoint code skip interfaces that are not up. > Later, we want to make it possible to checkpoint down interfaces with > a flag, but for now this helps prevent people from getting stuck on > stock kernels with various unsupported and persistent virtual interfaces, > such as tunnel devices. But devices that are not IFF_UP can still have addresses associated with them, wouldn't this cause those addresses to not be checkpointed? -Brian