Re: stable 3-10-3: strange output of "lsmod | grep ^acpi_cpufreq"

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat
Date: Sun Jul 28 2013 - 04:12:42 EST


On 07/28/2013 01:38 PM, Toralf FÃrster wrote:
> On 07/28/2013 01:39 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Saturday, July 27, 2013 07:40:34 PM Toralf FÃrster wrote:
>>> it gives at a ThinkPad T420:
>>>
>>> tfoerste@n22 ~/tmp $ lsmod | grep ^acpi_cpufreq
>>> acpi_cpufreq 12902 2147483647
>>
>> That is -1, which indicates some module refcount woes.
>>
>> I definitely can't see that with the mainline on my machines.
>
> It might be a regression in -stable only, b/c in 3,10.2 I did not
> observed it.
>
> Srivatsa,
>
> by any chance - could the revert of the cpufreq patches have something
> to do with that ?
>

Hmmm? Those reverts didn't touch anything related to module
refcounts.. So I don't think they have anything to do with this.

Also, is the issue related to suspend/resume at all? (Sorry, I don't
have your original email, so I'm not sure what the exact issue is).


Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat

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