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Subject: Re: 2.6.7-rc3: unregister_netdevice: waiting for tun0 to become
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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:36:22 -0700
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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 09:41:42 +1000
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> BTW, it looks like I missed the original IPv4 idev patch to route.c
> as well.  So could someone please tell me why it was needed in the
> first place?

Because per-device ipv4/ipv6 statistics support is coming.
It's necessary infrastructure.