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Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 20:45:38 -0400
From: "Gerb Stralko" <gerb.stralko@gmail.com>
To: "James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: remove CDROM not ready printk
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On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:22 AM, James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 11:04 -0400, Gerb Stralko wrote:
>> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:55 AM, James Bottomley
>> <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 10:35 -0400, Gerb Stralko wrote:
>> >> So is that printk really needed?  Should the kernel even need to print
>> >> a message like that, esp. if user-space is handling state updates and
>> >> notifications.  Or do i need to configure hald to be quietier?   FWIW
>> >> I'm using fedora core 9 and hald version:
>> >> -bash-3.2$ /usr/sbin/hald --version
>> >> HAL package version: 0.5.11
>> >
>> > Actually, I misspoke; it's set internally via sets of ioctls.  However,
>> > it's designed only to show on ioctls that do medium requiring things.
>> >
>> > I'm also using FC9 and I see no such messages (and for noisy cgc,
>> > they're printed out for every action on the CD).  You have some
>> > application that's poking the CD wrongly (probably not hal), so you
>> > really need to find out what it is.  It may be pointing to some other
>> > error in the kernel that needs fixing, but simply removing the message
>> > is covering up the issue.
>> >
>> > To help track the application, you could update the printk to print out
>> > current->comm and current->pid.  That would tell you who is responsible
>> >
>> > James
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> Okay, i'll do some investigation and see if I can track this down,
>> I'll let you know.   Thanks for the info.
>>
>> Are you using GNOME or KDE?  I'm currently using KDE.
>
> I'm using gnome ... there are intermittent reports of kde problems
> mainly with k3b though (the burner program), but if you put the printk
> in it should identify the application.
>
> James
>
>
>
I download the fedora updates and I rebooted and the messages went
away from my dmesg.   I left my computer on for a few hours and no
message. So I guess I problem was fixed in one of the updates.

Thanks for you help.  Sorry for the noise.

thanks again,

Jerry
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