Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2 -- ipw2200 -- SIOCSIFADDR: No buffer space available

Miles, could you try if this patch helps?

Björn


Stop destroying devices when all of their ifas are gone, as we no longer
recreate them when ifas are added.

Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink <redacted>
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diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index fa97b96..abf6352 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c

@@ -327,12 +327,8 @@ static void __inet_del_ifa(struct in_device *in_dev, struct in_ifaddr **ifap,
                }

        }
-       if (destroy) {
+       if (destroy)
                inet_free_ifa(ifa1);
-
-               if (!in_dev->ifa_list)
-                       inetdev_destroy(in_dev);
-       }
 }

 static void inet_del_ifa(struct in_device *in_dev, struct in_ifaddr **ifap,