Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:17:31 +1000
From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Maciej <maciej@killer-robot.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: orinoco_cs module removal problem
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On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:51:21PM -0500, Maciej wrote:
> I just switched from 2.5.68 to 2.5.70, and I'm having trouble removing
> the orinoco_cs module on the fly. After bringing the interface down,
> doing an "rmmod orinoco_cs" causes the rmmod process to lock up, and
> subseqeunt invocations of lsmod and 'cat /proc/modules' to do the same.
> I get a bunch of messages like the following in the kernel log:
> 
> "unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth2 to become free. Usage count = 1
> 
> However, eth2, the orinoco device, no longer exists (it's not listed
> in /proc/net/dev).

Yeah, that version of the driver is buggy.  I've already sent an
update to Linus, which is in current BK.

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