Subject: Re: Fw: unregister_netdevice(): negative refcnt, suggest patch against 2.6.11

From: Thomas Graf <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:17:11 +0200

* Herbert Xu <[email-masked]> 2005-04-18 12:07
> Thomas Graf <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > 
> > OK, I think the problem is a few missing dev_hold() when the net_device
> > handle is assigned to routes, probes, etc.
> 
> Indeed.  Here is a patch that adds the references that are held by
> the routes.

Thanks for taking over Herbert, I simply didn't have the time lately.
The patch looks perfectly fine to me.