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

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:35:08AM -0400, Gerb Stralko wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:05 AM, James Bottomley
> <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> > That's correct.  cgc is the data from the packet command that was sent
> > in from the ioctl.  The user application is actually the one that
> > decides whether you get to see the message or not.  Modern apps like hal
> > set it because they take care of all state updates and notifications
> > themselves.  Which is the application that's doing this (because it
> > probably needs updating).
> 
> 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

I think you misunderstood.  James is saying that an app like HAL will
set the ->quiet flag.  You must be using some other application that
isn't setting the ->quiet flag.  Any idea what this other application
is?

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