From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Gerb Stralko" Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: remove CDROM not ready printk Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 20:45:38 -0400 Message-ID: <75b57c110806011745t1af46305mddaf01f8c321857f@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> <75b57c110805290804p2280a6ffwf68174754db59e9c@mail.gmail.com> <1212074573.3428.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.234]:60537 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752997AbYFBApk (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 20:45:40 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h29so515702wxd.4 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:45:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1212074573.3428.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:22 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 11:04 -0400, Gerb Stralko wrote: >> 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. > > I'm using gnome ... there are intermittent reports of kde problems > mainly with k3b though (the burner program), but if you put the printk > in it should identify the application. > > James > > > I download the fedora updates and I rebooted and the messages went away from my dmesg. I left my computer on for a few hours and no message. So I guess I problem was fixed in one of the updates. Thanks for you help. Sorry for the noise. thanks again, Jerry