From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Paul Rolland <rol@as2917.net>
Cc: "'Chris Friesen'" <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>,
paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG]: problem when shutting down ppp connection since 2.5.70
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:05:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030630090507.A32593@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005e01c33ecd$e20ce6e0$4100a8c0@witbe>; from rol@as2917.net on Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 08:07:25AM +0200
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 08:07:25AM +0200, Paul Rolland wrote:
> > Jun 29 17:18:39 doug kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting
> > for ppp0 to
> > become free. Usage count = 1
>
> Interestingly, I've got the same with device tun0 on my box, and
> it appeared at the same time.
> 2.5.70 was really blocking as it even prevented a normal shutdown
> of the box :-(
People with PCMCIA cards have been reporting the same thing. It sounds
like something's up with the netdev layer, and it has persisted until
2.5.73 thus far.
Note that it helps to post such messages to the linux-net lists; some
of the net people don't read lkml.
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-30 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-30 2:35 [BUG]: problem when shutting down ppp connection since 2.5.70 Chris Friesen
2003-06-30 6:07 ` Paul Rolland
2003-06-30 8:05 ` Russell King [this message]
2003-06-30 8:03 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-30 8:23 ` Russell King
2003-06-30 8:42 ` Paul Rolland
2003-06-30 11:18 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-06-30 11:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-06-30 14:02 ` Chris Friesen
2003-06-30 15:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-06-30 16:41 ` Chris Friesen
2003-07-01 2:26 ` Chris Friesen
2003-07-03 5:17 ` Chris Friesen
2003-07-06 9:43 ` Paul Rolland
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