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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:43:10 +0100
From: Jon Escombe <lists@dresco.co.uk>
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To: Aaron Gyes <floam@sh.nu>
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Subject: Re: ATA warnings in dmesg
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Aaron Gyes wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 08:13 +0100, Jon Escombe wrote:
> 
>>I don't think you need to worry. Those messages are produced from the 
>>libata passthough code, whenever sense data has been requested...
>>
>>0xb0 looks like a SMART command, so I would guess (haven't looked at 
>>-mm) that the ata ioctl handlers have been updated to request it.
> 
> 
> That would make sense. I have a daemon running that requests the
> temperature via SMART every minute or so. Even still, this fills up my
> entire dmesg after not a very long time, can I turn these messages off
> somehow? If not, can you point me to where in the code I could kill a
> printk?
> 
> Aaron Gyes

Sure, the printk is in drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c, right at the end of 
ata_to_sense_error()..

Regards,
Jon.

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