From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: khali@linux-fr.org (Jean Delvare) Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:02:30 +0000 Subject: [lm-sensors] w83627ehf module floods log file Message-Id: <20070104210230.369646f1.khali@linux-fr.org> List-Id: References: <200701032236.24178@goldspace.net> In-Reply-To: <200701032236.24178@goldspace.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 15:05:46 -0800, David Hubbard wrote: > Hello, > > There are several ways to suppress this information in /var/log/messages: > > 1. Turn kernel driver debugging off: > Device Drivers -> Generic Driver Options -> Driver Core verbose debug messages > > Or, if you can't turn that off, > 2. Reconfigure syslogd to ignore the messages. This depends on which > distro you are using. Look under /etc/syslog.conf, /etc/syslog.d/*, or > man syslog. The messages are printed at KERN_DEBUG level, and > typically syslogd ignores these messages. > > Or, if you can't turn it off, > 3. Reconfigure syslogd to send KERN_DEBUG messages to a separate log > file. man syslog. > > Hope that helps, > David Correct, but that being said... > On 1/3/07, Nameserver.ru wrote: > > I have noticed the w83627ehf module (with patch to support DHG) floods > > /var/log/messages this way: > > > > ... > > Jan 3 21:54:40 anli w83627ehf 9191-0290: Increasing fan 4 clock divider from 4 to 8 > > Jan 3 21:54:43 anli w83627ehf 9191-0290: Increasing fan 4 clock divider from 4 to 8 > > Jan 3 21:54:46 anli w83627ehf 9191-0290: Increasing fan 4 clock divider from 4 to 8 > > Jan 3 21:54:49 anli w83627ehf 9191-0290: Increasing fan 4 clock divider from 4 to 8 > > Jan 3 21:59:28 anli w83627ehf 9191-0290: Increasing fan 4 clock divider from 4 to 8 > > Jan 3 21:59:31 anli w83627ehf 9191-0290: Increasing fan 4 clock divider from 4 to 8 > > Jan 3 21:59:34 anli w83627ehf 9191-0290: Increasing fan 4 clock divider from 4 to 8 > > Jan 3 21:59:37 anli w83627ehf 9191-0290: Increasing fan 4 clock divider from 4 to 8 > > Jan 3 21:59:40 anli w83627ehf 9191-0290: Increasing fan 4 clock divider from 4 to 8 This really suggests that the driver fails to actually increase the fan clock divider for fan4. This could be a bug in the drivers, worth investigating. David, care to take a look? -- Jean Delvare