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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc: Maxime Henrion <mux@sneakerz.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Patches to if_loop + the interface cloning framework
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I think loopback is not really 'optional' and should come as soon 
as you have any networking at all.
i.e. I think it should be removed as an option/module
and made dependent on having any networking.

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Brooks Davis wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:44:53PM -0600, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> > 
> > I've updated the patch at the same location, adding a panic() in case
> > the creation of lo0 fails.  I'll be interested in removing the KLD
> > stuff from this file since it's not working anyway, and adds some error
> > checking, but that will be a bit later ;-)
> 
> Looks good though error checking would be nice. ;-) I'm not convinced
> that removing the module support is a good idea.  I'd much rather move
> in the other direction in general.
> 
> -- Brooks
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