From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andre Tomt Subject: Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0) Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:14:04 +0100 Message-ID: <4204AA7C.9010509@tomt.net> References: <20050131162201.GA1000@stilzchen.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> <20050205052407.GA17266@gondor.apana.org.au> <20050204213813.4bd642ad.davem@davemloft.net> <20050205061110.GA18275@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , mirko.parthey@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, shemminger@osdl.org To: Herbert Xu In-Reply-To: <20050205061110.GA18275@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:38:13PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > >>It is just the first such thing I found, scanning rt6i_idev uses >>will easily find several others. > > > You're right of course. I thought they were all harmless but I was > obviously wrong about this one. > > So here is a patch that essentially reverts the split devices > semantics introduced by these two changesets: <..> This patch fixes my problems with hangs when dot1q VLAN interfaces gets removed when loopback is down, as reported in the thread "2.6.10 ipv6/8021q lockup on vconfig on interface removal". Yay :)