Re: [PATCH] scsi: remove CDROM not ready printk

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

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