From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Kujau Subject: Re: 2.6.7-rc3: waiting for eth0 to become free Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:06:48 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40C840C8.8000605@g-house.de> References: <1086722310.1682.1.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <20040608124215.291a7072@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> <1086725369.1806.1.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <20040608140200.2ddaa6f4@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> <1086794282.1706.2.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <40C793CE.6000609@g-house.de> <1086847636.1719.6.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: NetDev Mailinglist , Kernel Mailinglist Return-path: To: Felipe Alfaro Solana In-Reply-To: <1086847636.1719.6.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: | I think the mentioned error is not dependent on any specific interface | (let it be eth0, or ppp0), but any interface in general which has a | routing entry and is the target/source of IP traffic. This is based on | the fact that my fixes play with the refcounting on any interface. not | just eth0 specifically, and pertain to both IPv4 and IPv6 core. ok. | In my case, I was able to trigger the problem by running "cardctl eject" | which was then stuck at D state. Killing any program using a network | socket, and waiting for opened connections to transition from | ESTABLISHED to TIME_WAIT and then being closed, allowed "cardctl" to | exit the D state. no having pcmcia here, i'll see if i can reproduce it to / see what the patches will do. Thanks for the explanation, Christian. - -- BOFH excuse #439: Hot Java has gone cold -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAyEDH+A7rjkF8z0wRAusDAKCp2WW4LO01hP9ZDXa3N6eH7cuvIgCg2dTz IzprZryuJ/VuiRY/DGvMH24= =f7qL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----