2.4 Hidden Patch

[Ray Parish <RParish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am using the hidden patch on the 2.4 series kernel.
I have about 1000 ips bound to the lo interface.
I am having an issue where I set the appropriate proc settings via
sysctl.conf
The problem is that the system parses the sysctl.conf file before
the interfaces exist on the system, so this causes the interfaces to
come up in "NOT HIDDEN" mode.
thus I have to run sysctl -p in order to have the proc entries modified.

Is there a way to define lo to always have the default to 1 instead of 0
in the patch?


Thanks