Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2: Assigning IP address fails

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:54:52 +1000

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 03:06:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

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    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@gondor.apana.org.au>

Applied, thanks Herbert.