On Mon 22-11-10 12:19:36, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Le lundi 22 novembre 2010 ?? 11:43 +0100, Michal Hocko a ??crit : > > Hi, > > I am experiencing iwl3945 driver reference counting problem with the current > > 2.6.37-rc2 kernel release. > > > > The problem can be easily reproduced by associating to an AP (I have > > tried only wep and wpa based auth) and then rmmod iw3945 which gets > > stuck in unregister_netdevice (in the endless loop as there is no way - > > I guess - to decrease the reference count to 0) spitting the following > > message: > > > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for wlan0 to become free. Usage count = 1 > > [...] > > > Oh well, it seems David put the fix in net-next-2.6 instead of net-2.6 > > Please try : > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9d82ca98f71fd686ef2f3017c5e3e6a4871b6e46 Yes, the patch really fixes the issue. Thanks a lot! Btw. I have checked -rc3 which doesn't conttain the fix as well. > > Thanks > > -- Michal Hocko L3 team SUSE LINUX s.r.o. Lihovarska 1060/12 190 00 Praha 9 Czech Republic -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
