Hi, While testing my virtual ethernet device driver, creating and deleting devices makes the system unstable. Specifically, I get the following message is the kernel logs: Here 'devnull' is our server and 'testbed41' is my development machine. ------------------------------------------------ Mar 13 21:53:00 testbed41 kernel: nfs: server devnull not responding, timed out Mar 13 21:53:00 testbed41 kernel: nfs: server devnull OK Mar 13 21:53:36 testbed41 kernel: nfs: server devnull not responding, timed out Mar 13 21:53:37 testbed41 kernel: nfs: server devnull OK Mar 13 21:54:08 testbed41 kernel: nfs: server devnull not responding, timed out Mar 13 21:54:10 testbed41 kernel: nfs: server devnull OK Mar 13 21:54:31 testbed41 kernel: nfs: server devnull not responding, timed out ------------------------------------------------ My driver isnt doing anything at the moment, just allocating a 'device struct', registering it and then i unregister it. Any debugging tricks, pointers, insights would be helpful. Regards, Amit -- The statement below is true. The statement above is false. ^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^ Amit Kucheria EECS Grad. Research Assistant University of Kansas @ Lawrence (R)+1-(785)-830 8521 ||| (O)+1-(785)-864 7774 ____________________________________________________ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/