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authorBalaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>2008-02-09 00:52:40 +0530
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-02-21 15:27:06 -0800
commit7ab47050453c10da13940114dea9c7f1c6ad323f (patch)
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parentb6c24de77cbe9afe4962f0738e6444e709e83c81 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/cpufreq')
-rw-r--r--drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c8
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
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