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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:18:43 -0700 (PDT)
To: DJBARROW@de.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: bug in /net/core/dev.c
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DJBARROW@de.ibm.com writes:
 > The dev->refcnt will go up to 2 ( it should be 1) unregister_netdevice will
 > usually  loop forever
 > waiting for the refcnt to drop to 1 when an attempt to unregister is done.

When will devices built statically into the kernel ever be
unregister'd?

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com