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Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:09:45 +0100
From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: reference count leak in PPPoE
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> My workstation running 2.6.24-rc8 just hung during shutdown with an endless 
> (or rather I didn't wait more than a few minutes) loop of 
> 
> unregister_netdev: waiting for ppp-device to become free. Usage count = 1
> 
> ppp-device was an active PPPoE device.
> 
> No more information currently.
> 
> -Andi
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I think this bug has been identified.

[Bug 9778] New: unregister_netdevice: waiting for [device] to become free

Thanks.
   -- Daniel
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