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SubjectRe: 2.6.0-test5 vs. Ethernet cards
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:49:41AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:17:02AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:51:29PM +0900, Norman Diamond wrote:
> > > Shutdown messages appear on the text console as follows:
> > > [...]
> > > Shutting down PCMCIA unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free.
> > > Usage count = 1
> > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > The only way to shut down at this point is to turn off the power.
> >
> > IIRC the problem is your hotplug scripts. Maybe the hotplug folk can tell
> > you the minimum version for 2.6.
>
> The last release version is the best for 2.6, but this doesn't look
> like a hotplug script issue at all.

Hmm, ok. However, in the past when people have upgraded their hotplug
scripts, the problem goes away.

Whatever, it's certainly not a PCMCIA issue either, so I'm at a loss what
to do about these reports.

I can only think that the right answer is to bat them all at the netdev
list, since it is a network device issue.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/
Linux kernel maintainer of:
2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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