hum. It seems that dev_watchdog, among other places, does not assign a value to dev->xmit_lock_owner, when it takes the lock. I think this is a bug, but could be wrong ;-) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html