From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Floppy constantly accessed in 2.6.31-rc2
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:06:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1247526411.5220.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h3ehgd$mti$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 23:44 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> On 2.6.31-rc2 (actually current git as of today) the floppy drive is
> constantly being accessed with these messages being reported:
>
> Platform driver 'floppy' needs updating - please use dev_pm_ops
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
>
> lsof reports no process with /dev/fd0 open so it is not clear what is
> causing this activity. It looks like the access starts when I log in to
> X, but doesn't stop when I log out. I'm guessing HAL or something checks
> the floppy drive and then the kernel somehow gets stuck in a loop
> retrying the request..
That does look a bit like
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489083 (and its duplicate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496586 ).
Regards,
Paul Bolle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-13 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-13 5:44 Floppy constantly accessed in 2.6.31-rc2 Robert Hancock
2009-07-13 22:43 ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-13 23:06 ` Paul Bolle [this message]
2009-07-13 23:36 ` Robert Hancock
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