[stable 9] broken hwpstate calls

[Ian Smith]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 16:33:20 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
 > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 16:02 -0700, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
 > > Buy me a Bulldozer and I'll fix it for you! :-P
 > 
 > Since I have one (FX-8150), do you want me to expose it to the internet
 > and let you play with it?

I referred a fairly new user who asked on questions@ about the hwpstate 
errors on his new ASUS M5A97 EVO + AMD FX 8120 (stepping 15) to this 
thread, but had to say it wasn't clear whether there was or was not a 
working patch, amid discussions on a more general solution.  He may ask 
here himself, but I was wondering if and how you got yours going? :)

cheers, Ian