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| author | Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com> | 2008-02-08 20:22:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-02-22 00:27:06 +0100 |
| commit | 7ab47050453c10da13940114dea9c7f1c6ad323f (patch) | |
| tree | 1b50343583ddd59bdfe531b891a5a2599117b589 | |
| parent | slabinfo: fall back from /sys/kernel/slab to /sys/slab (diff) | |
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cpufreq: fix kobject reference count handling
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>
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 64926aa990db..89a29cd93783 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 |