Re: [BUG]: problem when shutting down ppp connection since 2.5.70

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:05:07 +0100


On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 08:07:25AM +0200, Paul Rolland wrote:
> > Jun 29 17:18:39 doug kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting
> > for ppp0 to
> > become free. Usage count = 1
>
> Interestingly, I've got the same with device tun0 on my box, and
> it appeared at the same time.
> 2.5.70 was really blocking as it even prevented a normal shutdown
> of the box :-(

People with PCMCIA cards have been reporting the same thing. It sounds
like something's up with the netdev layer, and it has persisted until
2.5.73 thus far.

Note that it helps to post such messages to the linux-net lists; some
of the net people don't read lkml.

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