[Linux-ia64] Re: fix for hang on rmmod

[Linux-ia64] Re: fix for hang on rmmod

[Bill Nottingham]

David Mosberger (davidm@hpl.hp.com) said: 
> Here is a patch that should fix the problem with "rmmod" hanging.
> I don't use modules much, but I tried Stephane's test case and
> rmmod seems to work fine on it.
> 
> Thanks to Asit for tracking this down.

Hm, a kernel with this now hangs for me on *load* of the eepro100 driver.
I'll try again with a newer kernel (this was with test9-1031), and
also on a different machine.

Bill

RE: [Linux-ia64] Re: fix for hang on rmmod

[Broadfoot, KenX]

Folks,

I have never seen this problem ( test10 ). This is with the Intel e100 and
e1000 drivers.
You folks have updated modutils?

--ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bill Nottingham [SMTP:notting@redhat.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, November 08, 2000 10:41 AM
> To:	David Mosberger
> Cc:	linux-ia64@linuxia64.org
> Subject:	[Linux-ia64] Re: fix for hang on rmmod
> 
> David Mosberger (davidm@hpl.hp.com) said: 
> > Here is a patch that should fix the problem with "rmmod" hanging.
> > I don't use modules much, but I tried Stephane's test case and
> > rmmod seems to work fine on it.
> > 
> > Thanks to Asit for tracking this down.
> 
> Hm, a kernel with this now hangs for me on *load* of the eepro100 driver.
> I'll try again with a newer kernel (this was with test9-1031), and
> also on a different machine.
> 
> Bill
> 
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