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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:53:30 +0100
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My workstation running 2.6.24-rc8 just hung during shutdown with an endless 
(or rather I didn't wait more than a few minutes) loop of 

unregister_netdev: waiting for ppp-device to become free. Usage count = 1

ppp-device was an active PPPoE device.

No more information currently.

-Andi