On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 03:06:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > I'm not able to bring an ethernet interface down and back up again > > with this if avahi-autoipd is installed on my Ubuntu boxes. I've seen > > it on three different computers with different NIC hardware. Sorry, it was my patch. This patch should fix it. [IPV4]: Do not remove idev when addresses are cleared Now that we create idev before addresses are added, it no longer makes sense to remove them when addresses are all deleted. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c index 354e800..0cf813f 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c +++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c @@ -327,12 +327,8 @@ static void __inet_del_ifa(struct in_device *in_dev, struct in_ifaddr **ifap, } } - if (destroy) { + if (destroy) inet_free_ifa(ifa1); - - if (!in_dev->ifa_list) - inetdev_destroy(in_dev); - } } static void inet_del_ifa(struct in_device *in_dev, struct in_ifaddr **ifap, - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html