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Subject: Re: stable 3-10-3: strange output of  "lsmod | grep ^acpi_cpufreq"
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:08:31 +0200
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On 07/28/2013 01:39 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, July 27, 2013 07:40:34 PM Toralf F=C3=B6rster wrote:
>> it gives at a ThinkPad T420:
>>
>> tfoerste@n22 ~/tmp $ lsmod | grep ^acpi_cpufreq
>> acpi_cpufreq           12902  2147483647
>=20
> That is -1, which indicates some module refcount woes.
>=20
> I definitely can't see that with the mainline on my machines.

It might be a regression in -stable only, b/c in 3,10.2 I did not
observed it.

Srivatsa,

by any chance - could the revert of the cpufreq patches have something
to do with that ?

--=20
MfG/Sincerely
Toralf F=C3=B6rster
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