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From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, urs@isnogud.escape.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] net ipv4: When possible test for IFF_LOOPBACK and not dev == loopback_dev
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:34:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FB873C.6060200@fr.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1bqbprnc2.fsf_-_@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Now that multiple loopback devices are becoming possible it makes
> the code a little cleaner and more maintainable to test if a deivice
> is th a loopback device by testing dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK instead
> of dev == loopback_dev.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>


Urs Thuermann posted the patch:

	[PATCH 5/7] CAN: Add virtual CAN netdevice driver

This network driver set its flag to IFF_LOOPBACK for testing.
Is it possible this can be a collision with your patch ?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-27 10:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-26 23:53 [PATCH 1/4] net: Dynamically allocate the per cpu counters for the loopback device Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-26 23:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] net ipv4: Remove unnecessary test for the loopback device from inetdev_destroy Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-26 23:58   ` [PATCH 3/4] net ipv4: When possible test for IFF_LOOPBACK and not dev == loopback_dev Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27  0:00     ` [PATCH 4/4] net: Make the loopback device per network namespace Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27  5:11       ` David Miller
2007-09-27 12:14       ` [Devel] " Denis V. Lunev
2007-09-27 16:48         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27  5:10     ` [PATCH 3/4] net ipv4: When possible test for IFF_LOOPBACK and not dev == loopback_dev David Miller
2007-09-27 10:34     ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
2007-09-27 16:10       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27  5:09   ` [PATCH 2/4] net ipv4: Remove unnecessary test for the loopback device from inetdev_destroy David Miller
2007-09-27  5:09 ` [PATCH 1/4] net: Dynamically allocate the per cpu counters for the loopback device David Miller
2007-09-27  7:48   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27 18:52     ` David Miller
2007-09-27 20:44       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-09-27 20:56         ` David Miller

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