On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:28:14AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

Maybe code would be cleaner if you just could do:
	register_netdevice(mydev);

	cloak_netdevice(mydev);


And cloak_netdevice() just removed the network device from the 
name table.  I would rather keep it with a real ifindex and in the
device list, so that if the interface is miss used or the device
is referenced by other devices, we don't see unexpected surprises
like oops.

I don't think first publishing it and then hiding it is a good idea,
but I agreed that it should at least have a valid ifindex.