Re: 24rc8: unregister_netdevice: waiting for ... to become free.

["Roland" <devzero@web.de>]

i`m also seeing this one, but with pcnet32 - "modprobe -r pcnet32" never 
returns and

"unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1"

being printed over and over again

lsmod |grep pcnet32 shows

pcnet32            35828    0
mii                      9344    1    pcnet32

i see stale ssh connection on port 22 and sshd for that session remains 
unkillable process.

roland



List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Re: 24rc8: unregister_netdevice: waiting for ... to become free.
From:       Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel () nn7 ! de>
Date:       2008-01-29 8:59:10
Message-ID: 1201597150.4973.10.camel () localhost
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On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 22:44 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:42:21 +0100
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > since some 2.6.24rc version I suddenly experience such messages on
> > console when trying to shutdown a vpn connection:
> >
> > unregister_netdevice: waiting for tun0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> >
> > or when removing an usb wlan dongle (although it was ifconfig wlan0
> > down'd before)
>
> Current GIT already has a fix for this, attached below:

hmmhhh, I am still seeing this problem on 2.6.24 with at least with the
madwifi driver...

Soeren