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Re: module unloading busted ?

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On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 15:07 +0530, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:56:00PM +0530, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > 05:33 < mcgrof> so module unload on ath9k no longer works
> > 06:11 < vmraj> mcgrof: module unload is not working for intel cards too
> > 06:15 < vmraj> it can be reproduced by rmmod on active connection
> > 
> > I haven't yet figured out why. Anyone else with other modules experiencing this?
> > 
> cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call invokes dev_hold on NETDEV_DOWN which increments
> Usage count. hence unregister_netdevice fails.

The cleanup_work should fix that up -- but I can see this being a corner
case that the network stack no longer likes us for ...

johannes

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