From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dax Kelson Subject: Re: [BUG] can't unload network device's if IPV6 is loaded Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 22:51:54 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <1071467514.3219.11.camel@mentor.gurulabs.com> References: <20031211153334.0c59214b.shemminger@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , YOSHIFUJI Hideaki , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Stephen Hemminger In-Reply-To: <20031211153334.0c59214b.shemminger@osdl.org> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 16:33, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > In 2.6.0-test11, IPV6 is not correctly cleaning up the network device reference's > (ie missing dev_put). So if I do: > rmmod e100 > it hangs forever and complains about that not all references have been cleaned up. > > This happens even if no IPV6 addresses have been set up. Just having ipv6 available > to be loaded at boot up. The vendor startup scripts (SuSe 9) may be setting something. I noticed this on my laptop with my internal Dell TrueMobile 1150 wireless 802.11 card (orinoco_cs). On my Fedora box when I added IPV6=yes to /etc/sysconfig/network I couldn't get clean reboots or shutdowns. Dax Kelson Guru Labs