Subject: Re: 24rc8: unregister_netdevice: waiting for ... to become free.
	Usage count = 1?
From: Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 22:44 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de>
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:42:21 +0100
> 
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > since some 2.6.24rc version I suddenly experience such messages on
> > console when trying to shutdown a vpn connection:
> > 
> > unregister_netdevice: waiting for tun0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> > 
> > or when removing an usb wlan dongle (although it was ifconfig wlan0
> > down'd before)
> 
> Current GIT already has a fix for this, attached below:

hmmhhh, I am still seeing this problem on 2.6.24 with at least with the
madwifi driver...

Soeren
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