linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix cpufreq

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Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:14:36 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...ru>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix cpufreq_stats attrs removal

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 06:02:01PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote:

 > The problem is cpufreq_stats doesn't know when a cpufreq driver is
 > removed and doesn't cleanup. I guess this affects any setup with
 > cpufreq_stats.
 > The attached patch seems to solve both symptoms and yes... it's quite
 > invasive as it introduce one more cpufreq policy notification (REMOVED).
 > 
 > BTW: the patch is against .21-rc4-mm1 but applies with some fuzz to
 > 2.6.20 too

Alternatively, as it's just debug functionality, we could just
mark it unsafe for rmmod, which is nastier, but a lot less invasive
to the non-debug code.

	Dave

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