From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Gerb Stralko" Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: remove CDROM not ready printk Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 11:04:32 -0400 Message-ID: <75b57c110805290804p2280a6ffwf68174754db59e9c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080529004154.bbc7b1d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1212069932.3428.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <75b57c110805290735i493eca0fp882f4a38901a416c@mail.gmail.com> <1212072912.3428.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1212072912.3428.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:55 AM, James Bottomley 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