Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] net ipv4: When possible test for IFF_LOOPBACK and not dev == loopback_dev

From: Daniel Lezcano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:34:36 +0200

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Now that multiple loopback devices are becoming possible it makes
> the code a little cleaner and more maintainable to test if a deivice
> is th a loopback device by testing dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK instead
> of dev == loopback_dev.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email-masked]>

Urs Thuermann posted the patch:

	[PATCH 5/7] CAN: Add virtual CAN netdevice driver

This network driver set its flag to IFF_LOOPBACK for testing.
Is it possible this can be a collision with your patch ?