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Lino reports that on his system with bcmgenet as DSA master and KSZ9897
as a switch, rebooting or shutting down never works properly.

What does the bcmgenet driver have special to trigger this, that other
DSA masters do not? It has an implementation of ->shutdown which simply
calls its ->remove implementation. Otherwise said, it unregisters its
network interface on shutdown.

This message can be seen in a loop, and it hangs the reboot process there:

unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 3

So why 3?

A usage count of 1 is normal for a registered network interface, and any
virtual interface which links itself as an upper of that will increment
it via dev_hold. In the case of DSA, this is the call path:

dsa_slave_create
-> netdev_upper_dev_link
   -> __netdev_upper_dev_link
      -> __netdev_adjacent_dev_insert
         -> dev_hold

So a DSA switch with 3 interfaces will result in a usage count elevated
by tw...