Re: Linux 2.6.17-rc1

[Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>:

> OK, thanks.  That indicates that we did install a
> acpi_processor_performance structure, but something must have later on
> zeroed it.
> 
> Hopefully the cpufreq guys will be able to reproduce this.
> 
> <tries it>
> 
> Actually, I cannot even rmmod the thing:
> 
> Module                  Size  Used by
> p4_clockmod             6980  1 
> speedstep_lib           5376  1 p4_clockmod
> 
> It looks like either it has a refcounting problem or it has been changed so
> that it is deliberately pinned.

I tried 2.6.17-rc1-mm2 today and got better (?) output when modprobing
the module:

powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.60.2)
ACPI Warning (acpi_utils-0065): Invalid package argument [20060310]
ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0275): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Invalid _PSS data [20060310]
powernow-k8:    0 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x12 (1100 mV)
powernow-k8:    1 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0x4 (1450 mV)
cpu_init done, current fid 0x8, vid 0x4

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