Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc8 ppp regression

From: Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:53:28 +0000

maximilian attems wrote:
> 
> when killing a wvdial usb modem session:
> 
> Jan 22 23:23:03 dual pppd[7941]: Terminating on signal 15
> Jan 22 23:23:03 dual pppd[7941]: Connect time 92.2 minutes.
> Jan 22 23:23:03 dual pppd[7941]: Sent 1322316 bytes, received 8587156 bytes.
> Jan 22 23:23:03 dual pppd[7941]: Connection terminated.
> Jan 22 23:23:05 dual kernel: usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 5
> Jan 22 23:23:05 dual kernel: option 3-2:1.0: device disconnected
> Jan 22 23:23:05 dual kernel: option1 ttyUSB1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now disconnected from ttyUSB1
> Jan 22 23:23:05 dual kernel: option 3-2:1.1: device disconnected
> Jan 22 23:23:13 dual kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for ppp0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> Jan 22 23:23:44 dual last message repeated 3 times
> Jan 22 23:23:54 dual kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for ppp0 to become free. Usage count = 1

This is a known bug which doesn't just affect PPP:
<http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9778>.

Ben.

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