Re: Cannot remove network module

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On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 08:30:56AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > After upgrading kernel from 2.4.20 to 2.4.21 I cannot remove any
> > network device driver module with rmmod even when it is in the down
> > state with "ip link set eth0 down".
> > All other (non net) drivers I can remove without any problem.
> > 
> > Kernel prints next message every few seconds:
> > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 2
> 
> You've probably applied the IPSEC patch which picked up changes to
> addrconf.  If that's the case, you should upgrade to the latest version
> of the IPSEC patch or disable CONFIG_IPV6_PRIVACY.

That was the problem. Thanks!

I think that I downloaded latest IPSEC patch from your site
(ipsec-2.4.21-20030704-1.bz2). Do you have newer one?

Milan
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