From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:05:07 +0100 People with PCMCIA cards have been reporting the same thing. It sounds like something's up with the netdev layer, and it has persisted until 2.5.73 thus far. If there are bugs in pcmcia drivers, they are _really_ going to show now. The change is that 'rmmod' is allowed even if the device is "up". We don't grab/drop module reference counts when the device is brought up/down. We simply "down" up net devices at unregister_netdevice() time. So if a device is racey, it's going to be "really" racey now. If people mention which devices give the problems (with current kernels, we've fixed a lot of bugs as of late) the drivers can be audited for register/unregister bugs. - : 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
