From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: remove CDROM not ready printk Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 09:55:12 -0500 Message-ID: <1212072912.3428.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20080529004154.bbc7b1d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1212069932.3428.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <75b57c110805290735i493eca0fp882f4a38901a416c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:53195 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753344AbYE2OzX (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 10:55:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <75b57c110805290735i493eca0fp882f4a38901a416c@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Gerb Stralko Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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