From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762994AbYBUXzS (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:55:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936415AbYBUXxp (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:53:45 -0500 Received: from testure.choralone.org ([194.9.77.134]:43850 "EHLO testure.choralone.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936409AbYBUXxm (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:53:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:53:29 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Balaji Rao , Yi Yang , Alan Stern , Frans Pop , Yinghai Lu , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] cpufreq: fix kobject reference count handling Message-ID: <20080221235329.GA28514@codemonkey.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Balaji Rao , Yi Yang , Alan Stern , Frans Pop , Yinghai Lu , Ingo Molnar References: <20080221234649.GB7128@kroah.com> <1203637687-7273-3-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1203637687-7273-3-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:47:59PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Balaji Rao > > 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 > Cc: Dave Jones > Cc: Yi Yang > Cc: Alan Stern > Cc: Frans Pop > Cc: Yinghai Lu > Cc: Ingo Molnar > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman ACK. This needs to go in soon, so I can stop hearing about it :-) Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk