On 2 August 2013 12:39, Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I guess you are printing it at an odd time, when the module > is still running its init function. Perhaps the core kernel > module infrastructure increments the refcount around that > region temporarily? If I think logically, that sounds correct. I haven't looked at the implementation details though. But yes, I understood why my refcount was incremented :) Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cpufreq" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html