new kernel for testing

[Hannes Mayer]

Hannes Mayer wrote:
> Ed Hill wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 03:28, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the plan is to do a kernel update friday or monday (depending on the
>>> amount of things that turn up in this testing). There is a 424 kernel in
>>> the testing dir on the ftp repository and on
>>> http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Just tried the new 424 kernel and it has PCMCIA problems on my ThinkPad
>> A22p that did not occur with 2.6.5-1.358 or 2.6.6-1.422.  When manually
>> ejecting cards, 424 produces the following error messages on all Xterms:
>>
>>   kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free.     
>> Usage count = 1
>>
>> and then there was no apparent way of restarting any networking or
>> getting the prompts back.  A shutdown failed to complete as systemlogger
>> just kept repeating the above error message (pulled power and ejected
>> battery to eventually shut it off).
> 
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> I just had the same problem with ppp0 and kernel 424.
> 
> unregistered_netdevice: waiting for ppp0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> 
> First I couldn't reach outside networks anymore, I tried to restart the
> VPN connection. Then the above message appeared in the console.
> Killing pppd failed (even with -9). I tried to reboot, but reboot didn't
> complete cause syslogd was repeating the message as in Ed's case.
> I ended up in a power cycle - now it works again.
> 
> It worked perfect in kernel 391custom (just added NTFS support)

Just a quick update for you Arjan:
Today I installed kernel 427 and I'm running it for 6+ hours now and the
unregistered_netdevice problem is gone.
Thank you very much for the great work! :-)

Cheers,
Hannes.