netdev - Re: new NAPI interface broken

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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:33:51 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@...ibm.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	themann@...ibm.com, raisch@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: new NAPI interface broken

 > 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.

I suspect that this is because netif_rx_reschedule() was missing a
dev_hold() to match the dev_put() in netif_rx_complete().  Dave merged
a fix for that problem yesterday, so current net-2.6.24 should be OK.
Let us know if it's not OK, because then there's another bug...

 - R.
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