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Bug 105797

Summary:	problems with removal of network devices.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta	Reporter:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Dave Jones <davej>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	beta2	CC:	pfrields, riel
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Description David Woodhouse 2003-09-27 17:11:19 UTC

upon 'cardctl eject' of an orinoco_cs device...

 unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count = 2

Repeated ad infinitum. Network device list is locked; ifconfig et al. deadlock.

2.4.22-1.2075.nptlsmp

Comment 1 David Woodhouse 2003-11-06 12:24:40 UTC

Happens in 2.6 too. Rumour has it it's IPv6-related and there's even a
fix in Taroon already. I don't have any IPv6-disabled boxes any more
with which I could test this theory.

It's been seen on all removal of network devices, including 'brctl delbr'