On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:39:13PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:39:14PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > > On Monday 11 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > > > In general 2.6.25 if looking quite good on my desktop, but there's > > > > one important issue: the system no longer powers off after shutdown. > > > > This works fine with 2.6.24. > > > > > > Don't ask me why, but bisection shows this commit to be the cause of > > > the failure to power off: > > > commit c10997f6575f476ff38442fa18fd4a0d80345f9d > > > Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> > > > Date: Thu Dec 20 08:13:05 2007 -0800 > > > > > > Kobject: convert drivers/* from kobject_unregister() to > > > kobject_put() > > > > > > Because it seemed somewhat unlikely, I have double checked this by > > > doing an extra compilation for this commit and its predecessor. > > > > What is the symptom of not powering off? > > I already noticed yesterday that there's one hunk in that commit that's not > a straight replacement: > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c > index 9e102af..5efd555 100644 > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c > @@ -1030,8 +1030,6 @@ static int __cpufreq_remove_dev (struct sys_device * sys_dev) > > unlock_policy_rwsem_write(cpu); > > - kobject_unregister(&data->kobj); > - > kobject_put(&data->kobj); > > /* we need to make sure that the underlying kobj is actually > > > So, just on the off chance, I applied the patch below and bingo, the system > powers off again. I doubt this will be the correct solution, but just in > case it is, here's my signed off. A comment why the double put is needed > would probably be good though. There is a bug in the cpufreq kref logic that makes this "double put" necessary. A real fix has already been posted to solve this issue, and I think it should be on it's way to Linus for -rc2 already. Please let me know if -rc2 comes out without this needed fix. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
