Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 03/11] cpufreq: fix kobject reference count handling | Date | Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:47:59 -0800 |
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From: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
The cpufreq core should not take an extra kobject reference count for no reason, and then refuse to release it. This has been reported as keeping machines from properly powering down all the way.
Signed-off-by: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> --- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 8 -------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c index 64926aa..89a29cd 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c @@ -1006,14 +1006,6 @@ static int __cpufreq_remove_dev (struct sys_device * sys_dev) } #endif - - if (!kobject_get(&data->kobj)) { - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags); - cpufreq_debug_enable_ratelimit(); - unlock_policy_rwsem_write(cpu); - return -EFAULT; - } - #ifdef CONFIG_SMP #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU -- 1.5.4
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