Subject: Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0)

From: Andre Tomt <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:48:15 +0100

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:
> In article <[email-masked]> (at Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:14:04 +0100), Andre Tomt <[email-masked]> says:
> 
> 
>>This patch fixes my problems with hangs when dot1q VLAN interfaces gets 
>>removed when loopback is down, as reported in the thread "2.6.10 
>>ipv6/8021q lockup on vconfig on interface removal".
> 
> 
> Please tell me, why your lo is down...
> 
> Anyway, if we really want to "fix" this,
> we should do in other way.
> 
> I think "Make loopback idev stick around" patches
> (for IPv4 and IPv6) could be start of that.

"ifdown -a" gets run on shutdown and reboot here, and ifdown -a in 
Debian brings down loopback before any other interfaces.