Re: 2.6.0-test5 vs. Ethernet cards

From: Russell King
Date: Sun Sep 14 2003 - 03:19:12 EST


On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:51:29PM +0900, Norman Diamond wrote:
> Shutdown messages appear on the text console as follows:
> [...]
> Shutting down PCMCIA unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free.
> Usage count = 1
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> [...]
>
> The only way to shut down at this point is to turn off the power.

IIRC the problem is your hotplug scripts. Maybe the hotplug folk can tell
you the minimum version for 2.6.

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Linux kernel maintainer of:
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2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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