Am Dienstag, 8. November 2005 12:36 schrieb Herbert Xu:
> In either cases by the time dev_deactivate terminates, no further calls
> to kaweth_start_xmit are possible. All calls made before its termination
> will have terminated due to the spin_unlock_wait in dev_deactivate and
> any tx_urb submitted will be taken care of by the usb_kill_urb in
> kaweth_close.
Ok, I see. So you can guarantee that unregister_netdev() will always call
close() ? This bug is a legacy of asynchronous unlinking. The driver was
converted to usb_kill_urb() without reconsidering this. If you can make that
guarantee, I'll aplly your patches.
Regards
Oliver
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