Re: [PATCH 0/2] bring UP loopback device at initialziation

On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार)
[off-list ref] wrote:

Now that you have made me aware of some use cases that do want the
loopback device to be DOWN, could we use a global sysctl to dictate
the loopback behavior during init? e.g.

Yeah, it is never about which way is better, it is all about if we could break
the existing assumption. This is a similar situation to the
inconsistent behavior
of the per-netns sysctl's between IPv4 and IPv6, there were multiple fixes
or complains about it in this mailing list, but we still don't change it yet.