[PATCH] Skip down interfaces (v2)

Brian Haley brian.haley at hp.com
Thu Apr 1 08:22:14 PDT 2010


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


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