Re: [BUG] can't unload network device's if IPV6 is loaded

[Dax Kelson <dax@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 16:33, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> In 2.6.0-test11, IPV6 is not correctly cleaning up the network device 
> reference's
> (ie missing dev_put).  So if I do:
>       rmmod e100
> it hangs forever and complains about that not all references have been 
> cleaned up.
> 
> This happens even if no IPV6 addresses have been set up. Just having ipv6 
> available
> to be loaded at boot up.  The vendor startup scripts (SuSe 9) may be setting 
> something.

I noticed this on my laptop with my internal Dell TrueMobile 1150
wireless 802.11 card (orinoco_cs).

On my Fedora box when I added IPV6=yes to /etc/sysconfig/network I
couldn't get clean reboots or shutdowns.

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs