Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422956AbXBATTF (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 14:19:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422955AbXBATTE (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 14:19:04 -0500 Received: from faui03.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ([131.188.30.103]:57121 "EHLO faui03.informatik.uni-erlangen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422954AbXBATTD (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2007 14:19:03 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 20:19:01 +0100 From: Thomas Glanzmann To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: LKML , shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sky2 hangs Message-ID: <20070201191901.GP13130@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Mail-Followup-To: Thomas Glanzmann , Stephen Hemminger , LKML , shemminger@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <20070201185532.GL13130@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <20070201110552.5bf52c8f@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070201110552.5bf52c8f@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11-2006-07-11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 777 Lines: 23 Hello Stephen, > It was intentional in 2.6 to allow interfaces to be hot-removed. > Remember with Internet protocols there is no hard binding (normally) > between address and device and connections should not go down if link > fails. of course. That makes sense. I just wondered when the change in mind happened. And actually I like this behaviour. > > With that everything works. If somone is interested in my userland > > watchdog, just send me an E-Mail. > Hopefully, it won't be necessary for long. So do I. Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/