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cpufreq: fix kobject reference count handling 

The cpufreq core should not take an extra kobject reference count for no
reason, and then refuse to release it.  This has been reported as
keeping machines from properly powering down all the way.


Signed-off-by: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Balaji Rao 2008-02-09 00:52:40 +05:30 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent b6c24de77c
commit 7ab4705045
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@ -1006,14 +1006,6 @@ static int __cpufreq_remove_dev (struct sys_device * sys_dev)
}
#endif
if (!kobject_get(&data->kobj)) {
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
cpufreq_debug_enable_ratelimit();
unlock_policy_rwsem_write(cpu);
return -EFAULT;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU