Re: [2.6.25-rc1] System no longer powers off after shutdown

From: Frans Pop
Date: Fri Feb 15 2008 - 05:19:43 EST


On Friday 15 February 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> I swear someone sent this patch in before. Can you try this one below,
> there seems to be an imbalance with kobject_get and _put.

I did remember seeing this patch before [1] and can confirm that it does
indeed fix the issue: with this patch applied to 2.6.25 git head my system
powers off correctly.

[1] See http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/8/342; also added to #9960.

> ---
> drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 8 --------
> 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> @@ -1006,14 +1006,6 @@ static int __cpufreq_remove_dev (struct
> }
> #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

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