Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] ipip: allow to deactivate the creation of fb dev

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:29:26 -0800

On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:14:13 +0100
Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Now that tunnels can be configured via rtnetlink, this device is not mandatory.
> The default is conservative.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]>

Although I am in favor of reducing clutter, and we even have to put in special case
code to ignore these stub devices in the Vyatta scripts. Module parameters are bit of a nuisance to deal with, but maybe
the only way for this kind of thing and keep the required ABI.

Not sure if I can fully endorse this. The device may still have uses.
It is still useful for capturing "none of the above" packets
and is used to auto-load module via module aliases.