-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 16:38:55 -0700 "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote: >On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:08:23 +0200 >"Angelo Dell'Aera" <buffer@antifork.org> wrote: > >> Looking at the sources it seems that ALL net drivers are affected by >> this problem. > >If net drivers properly unregister the devices they >create, there are no problems. > >Module reference counts are unnecessary for network >devices, this is why they were removed. Things still >work perfectly fine. I agree with you but you should agree with me that removing a net driver while the NIC is generating traffic should be not possibile. I did it and what I had was a kernel panic. I think this should be avoided in some way. - -- Angelo Dell'Aera Antifork Research, Inc. http://buffer.antifork.org PGP information in e-mail header -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/NDdwpONIzxnBXKIRArJTAJwJwdn9vDOQSpaFMgwdoz9mqoo35QCghqr2 H/fPAh/R+vcs46aKzylCpZs= =ypH2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - : 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
