[Devel] Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver

[Patrick McHardy]

Johannes Berg wrote:
> Our virtual devices are always associated with a piece of hardware, and
> we really want them to be associated with that at all times, even when
> not UP. Everything else seems like a huge complication if only because
> then we can't have whoever will be responsible for the device allocate
> it's private space area.


Shouldn't be a problem either. Creating the device atomically also
prevents that anything else is setting them UP before they're fully
configured.
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