On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 22:12 -0700, Brennan Ashton wrote:
> When the bcm43xx_mac80211 driver stops communicating, and needs to be
> reset (this seems to happens when coming from strong to week to strong
> signal area quickly) i have been rmmod and then modprobing it. this
> works most of the time, but some times (~20%), it will lock up the
> network with this error that repeats.
> 
> Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Fri Aug  3 00:55:41 2007 ...
> localhost kernel: [19316.256549] unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to 
> becom
> e free. Usage count = 5
> 
> usage count varies, but renders the system unusable (extremely slow,
> like when localhost is not defined) until the laptop is turned off,
> the system will hang during shutdown requiring a power interrupt.
> This did not happen with the bcm43xx driver in 2.6.22-rc7.

I was about to suggest it could be caused by the deadlock Michael just
found and fixed, but that happens under rtnl so it can't be.

Can you get a process dump? echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger or just
pressing sysrq-t

johannes

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