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Re: [PATCH 2.6] vlan - device refcount bug.

To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] vlan - device refcount bug.
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:49:01 -0700
Cc: greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:14:25 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If you rmmod a network device that is in a vlan, the system hangs waiting
> for the refcount to go to zero, because it is -1.  The problem is that the
> vlan notifier does an extra dev_put in NETDEV_UNREGISTER case of notifier.

Applied.

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