Re: suspending to disk on FC6 not working

Pavel Machek
2006-10-01T05:30:32Z

Hi!

> > I had not noticed it was not loaded. This maybe a bigger problem. With
> > the latest FC6 kernel this module gets loaded and thus suspend fails. I
> > rebuilt the same kernel but plopped this patch in. The module does not
> > want to load:
> >
> > # /sbin/modprobe acpi-cpufreq
> > FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq
> > (/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2708.cpufreq/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): No such device
> >
> > This is why suspend works. But now this module won't load.
>
> Right, what the STICKY patch that you reverted does is it silences the
> failure, by not unloading the module when it fails to init.
>
> What we want is the best of both worlds: Silence when its loaded and
> init fails, and no module around. Hmm.

? Using more kernel memory when hardware can't do acpi_cpufreq just to
get a rid of message... seems like very bad tradeoff. ACPI tables are
not hotpluggable, so it _should_ be impossible to load that module...

Pavel
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