On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:29:31 -0800
Stephen Hemminger [off-list ref] wrote:

Patch against 2.6.0 to fix the problem of being unable to load the
ethernet driver because of reference's still being held.  The
problem reference's are from IPV6 network discovery packets that get
captured by the af_packet protocol and queued onto a socket queue
(which may never drain).  The route dst entries in the skbuff get
clone'd and won't be freed until the socket read.

Ok, I've applied this patch, it's the best solution at this time.

Thanks.