From: Serhey Popovych <serhe.popov...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 15:10:03 +0300
> Now with commit 9c7dafb (net: Allow to create links with > given ifindex) support registration of network devices > with specific ifindex is added. > > We can force loopback network device index before call to > register_netdev() to ensure we always configure it with > LOOPBACK_IFINDEX. > > Kill BUG_ON() since system can continue without network > namespace failed in loopback init path, unless it is > init_net namespace where we panic() anyway. > > Signed-off-by: Serhey Popovych <serhe.popov...@gmail.com> Is the BUG_ON() triggering, if so why? It looks to me that unless there is a bug, this assignment is unnecessary.