netdev - Re: new NAPI interface broken

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Message-Id: <20070918.120810.108807713.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:08:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ossthema@...ibm.com
Cc:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	themann@...ibm.com, raisch@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: new NAPI interface broken

From: Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@...ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:15:45 +0200

> One other thing I observed is that I can not unload the module as the
> ref counter of the eth device is too low. I haven't tracked down the 
> source of this problem yet.

This is probably because of the resched device refcounting
bug that Roland Dreier just posted a fix for.

Look for subject "Fix refcounting problem with netif_rx_reschedule()"

I merge that in shortly to net-2.6.24 as well.
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