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From: Dave Jones <davej@...>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, Balaji Rao <balajirrao@...>, Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@...>, Alan Stern <stern@...>, Frans Pop <elendil@...>, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] cpufreq: fix kobject reference count handling
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 7:53 pm

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:47:59PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
 > From: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
 > 
 > 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>

ACK. This needs to go in soon, so I can stop hearing about it :-)

	Dave

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