Hi! > > I had not noticed it was not loaded. This maybe a bigger problem. With > > the latest FC6 kernel this module gets loaded and thus suspend fails. I > > rebuilt the same kernel but plopped this patch in. The module does not > > want to load: > > > > # /sbin/modprobe acpi-cpufreq > > FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq > > (/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2708.cpufreq/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): No such device > > > > This is why suspend works. But now this module won't load. > > Right, what the STICKY patch that you reverted does is it silences the > failure, by not unloading the module when it fails to init. > > What we want is the best of both worlds: Silence when its loaded and > init fails, and no module around. Hmm. ? Using more kernel memory when hardware can't do acpi_cpufreq just to get a rid of message... seems like very bad tradeoff. ACPI tables are not hotpluggable, so it _should_ be impossible to load that module... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
