On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:33 AM, Jachym Holecek wrote:

> # Juan RP 2006-09-28:
>> Anyway there are some problems in the code that I need to fix...
>> when I set a frequency in a specified driver, it removes the  
>> dictionary
>> and consequent calls will panic because I think it removes device_t's
>> properties dictionary by accident... I don't know where's the  
>> problem.
>
> You mean in SMCPUFREQ_SFREQ case? At a glance: you assign obj to
> sdict["list-of-frequencies"] array and when you're done with it,
> you release obj. But you didn't retain it previously, so you might
> be dropping the last reference in which case the array is GC'd.

sdict will retain the object.

-- thorpej