From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: mac80211 does seem to have a netdev refcount bug
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:15:59 +0100
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	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
	John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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On Thursday 24 January 2008 12:07:07 Kalle Valo wrote:
> Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> writes:
> 
> > There seems to be a netdevice refcounting (freeing) bug in mac80211.
> > I frequently see the "waiting for netdev to become free, refcount = 1"
> > message on rmmod. I don't remember the message text exactly, but I think you
> > know what I mean.
> 
> Most probably it's this one:
> 
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9778
> 
> There was a discussion on netdev about this. Not a mac80211 bug AFAIK.

Oh, yes. This might be possible. So let's see. It will soon be fixed then.

-- 
Greetings Michael.