RE: WARNING: at drivers/base/sys.c:183 sysdev_driver_register+0x75/0x12e()

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Tue Apr 22 2008 - 15:57:09 EST


On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Langsdorf, Mark wrote:

> PowerNow! failed to load because the BIOS wasn't set up correctly. But
> the acpi-cpufreq driver shouldn't have loaded at all.

I'd guess that it is because acpi_cpufreq_init() doesn't contain any check
at all that will make sure that the CPU supports needed features (as
opposed to powernow/speedstep/etc modules, which perform such checks),
right?

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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