From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
cpufreq@lists.linux.org.uk, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: acpi-cpufreq oddness
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:54:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060818205444.GA28979@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060818190454.GB18750@redhat.com>
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 03:04:54PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> No, there's nothing in dmesg.
> This is from the perror() in modprobe printing out the human-readable form
> of -EINVAL
>
> An strace shows ..
>
> init_module(0x8287a88, 16244, "") = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> write(2, "FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpuf"..., 139FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq (/lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2571.fc6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): Invalid argument
Ok, after a bit more investigation, the -EINVAL seems to be coming
from acpi_processor_preregister_performance()
Should ..
if (!performance || !performance[i]) {
retval = -EINVAL;
continue;
}
be -ENODEV perhaps ?
Dave
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-18 18:59 acpi-cpufreq oddness Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2006-08-18 19:04 ` Dave Jones
2006-08-18 20:45 ` Venkatesh Pallipadi
2006-08-18 21:09 ` Dave Jones
2006-08-18 20:54 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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