From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Stefan Rompf <srompf@isg.de>
Subject: Re: 2.5.50 BUG_TRAP on !dev->deadbeaf, and oopses
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 13:45:06 +0100
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Hi,

David Brownell wrote:

>    KERNEL: assertion (!dev->deadbeaf) failed at net/core/dev.c(2544)
> 
> I think there's another bug, beyond the obvious speling erorz.  Namely,
> that "deadbeaf" is only set after that BUG_TRAP, or on one error path.
> The assertion prevents hotpluggable network drivers from unregistering
> when the hardware goes away ... which is a regression.

actually, the assertion is triggered when someone tries to unregister a
netdevice twice, and that's also why you get

>    unregister_netdevice: device /dfd74058 never was registered

>>From a short browsing through usb.c I don't see a similiar bug catcher
in usb_device_remove(), so have a look if the USB subsystem itself
removes a unplugged device
twice for some reason.

Stefan