From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: Re: Fw: unregister_netdevice(): negative refcnt, suggest patch against 2.6.11 Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:48:13 -0300 Message-ID: <39e6f6c705041807481bb715d6@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050411125113.GL26731@postel.suug.ch> <20050418080902.GA5675@gondor.apana.org.au> Reply-To: acme@ghostprotocols.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Thomas Graf , fmp@palmen.homeip.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com, "David S. Miller" Return-path: To: Herbert Xu In-Reply-To: <20050418080902.GA5675@gondor.apana.org.au> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 4/18/05, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:07:49PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > > Indeed. Here is a patch that adds the references that are held by > > the routes. > > BTW, there are other problems in the appletalk stack that should > be fixed too. For instance, the route entries and skb's there don't > hold a reference to the device that they point to. So if anyone is > going to spend time on appletalk then they should have a look at them. Appletalk is known to be in need of a major reworking, I haven't had time so far to devote to it even being listed as "MAINTAINER" of such stuff, perhaps I should send a patch dropping maintainership. After I'm satisfied with DCCP I may well revisit Appletalk to use the skills I got/new infrastructure I put in place while working on DCCP, time will tell. - Arnaldo