Re: Regression in 2.6.27-rc2 in acpi_processor_init()

From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue Aug 12 2008 - 15:55:31 EST


On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 11:02:10PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> [Adding CCs]
>
> On Friday, 8 of August 2008, Langsdorf, Mark wrote:
> > I got a regression when updated from 2.6.27-rc1 ro
> > 2.6.27-rc2. The noticeable symptom is the powernow-k8
> > driver stopped working because the call to
> > acpi_processor_register_performance() is returning
> > -EINVAL.
> >
> > Digging into the code a bit more, that's occurring
> > because acpi_processor_ppc_status is not set.
> > That should be set in acpi_processor_init(), but
> > that function is failing to register the ACPI
> > processor driver.
> >
> > I've dug through the code and can't see why
> > that call would fail. It doesn't look like there
> > were any changes between 2.6.27-rc1 and 2.6.27-rc2,
> > but I may have missed something.
> >
> > Any advice or suggestions in debugging this
> > appreciated.

a1531acd43310a7e4571d52e8846640667f4c74b perhaps related ?

Dave

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