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Thanks for quick response. I will have to dig in deeper, than.

Gr. AvS
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From: Johannes Berg [johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 3:57 PM
To: Arend Van Spriel
Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: cfg80211 rfkill interface

On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 06:54 -0800, Arend Van Spriel wrote:

> Thanks for you thoughts on this. Especially the last remark was reason
> for me to verify several usage scenarios. I ran into a issue with
> unloading the driver module while it was in blocked rfkill state and
> polling was active. Turns out the call to ieee80211_unregister_hw
> takes a loooong time before it returns and dmesg shows message from
> unregister_netdevice which seems related about refcount not being
> zero. This is only observed in this scenario. Any suggestion on how to
> handle this?

No, I can see no reason for this to happen?? rfkill doesn't take a
netdev refcount.

johannes



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