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

["Gerb Stralko" <gerb.stralko@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:55 AM, James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
Okay, i'll do some investigation and see if I can track this down,
I'll let you know.   Thanks for the info.

Are you using GNOME or KDE?  I'm currently using KDE.

thanks