Subject: Re: SET_MODULE_OWNER
From: Ricardo Bugalho <ricardo.b@zmail.pt>
To: davem@redhat.com
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, schlicht@uni-mannheim.de,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 20:59, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:00:58 -0400
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > David?  Does Rusty have a plan here or something?
> 
> It just works how it works and that's it.
> 
> Net devices are reference counted, anything more is superfluous.
> They may be yanked out of the kernel whenever you want.

Just noticed it: I can't unload the module even after bringing the
interface down.
In either case, modprobe hangs and I start getting this message in
syslog:

Jul 17 21:50:44 ezquiel kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0
to become free. Usage count = -4

Can't shutdown the system either. Init hangs waiting for modprobe to
die.

-- 
	Ricardo

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