On 25 October 2013 15:40, Rafael J. Wysocki <r...@rjwysocki.net> wrote:
> And in my opinion acpi_cpufreq_init() should just return an error code if it
> can't register the driver, like in the (untested) patch below.
>
> Rafael
>
>
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-pm/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
> +++ linux-pm/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
> @@ -988,10 +988,10 @@ static int __init acpi_cpufreq_init(void
>
>         /* don't keep reloading if cpufreq_driver exists */
>         if (cpufreq_get_current_driver())
> -               return 0;
> +               return -EEXIST;
>
>         if (acpi_disabled)
> -               return 0;
> +               return -ENODEV;
>
>         pr_debug("acpi_cpufreq_init\n");

Much better.. And probably the first return has caused the bug
Linus faced..

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@linaro.org>
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