On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 22:11:08 +0200 Daniele Bellucci <bellucda@tiscali.it> wrote: > On Tue 19 August 2003 22:01, David S. Miller wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 22:03:09 +0200 > > > > Daniele Bellucci <bellucda@tiscali.it> wrote: > > 1) This driver is the only one we know of that has said > > problem. > > IIRC the same problem occours with 8139cp [on 2.6.0-test2] !!! And therefore the problem exists in 2.4.x as well. Please read what I'm telling you, the problem exists even with the module refcount there. If ->close() returns before the device is truly shut down it can crash the system, this is true both with and without the netdev refcount. - : 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
