The patch titled Exit ACPI processor module gracefully if acpi is disabled has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is exit-acpi-processor-module-gracefully-if-acpi-is-disabled.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Exit ACPI processor module gracefully if acpi is disabled From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/processor_core.c | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/acpi/processor_core.c~exit-acpi-processor-module-gracefully-if-acpi-is-disabled drivers/acpi/processor_core.c --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c~exit-acpi-processor-module-gracefully-if-acpi-is-disabled +++ a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c @@ -890,6 +890,8 @@ void acpi_processor_uninstall_hotplug_no * ACPI, but needs symbols from this driver */ +static int processor_driver_registered = 0; + static int __init acpi_processor_init(void) { int result = 0; @@ -909,6 +911,8 @@ static int __init acpi_processor_init(vo return result; } + processor_driver_registered = 1; + acpi_processor_install_hotplug_notify(); acpi_thermal_cpufreq_init(); @@ -925,12 +929,13 @@ static void __exit acpi_processor_exit(v acpi_thermal_cpufreq_exit(); + if (processor_driver_registered){ acpi_processor_uninstall_hotplug_notify(); acpi_bus_unregister_driver(&acpi_processor_driver); remove_proc_entry(ACPI_PROCESSOR_CLASS, acpi_root_dir); - + } return; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from trenn@xxxxxxx are exit-acpi-processor-module-gracefully-if-acpi-is-disabled.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html