Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-mm1-M5

Alan Cox
2004-07-30T23:54:05Z

On Gwe, 2004-07-30 at 23:00, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> - both with and without the workaround, I get this:
> "Jul 30 08:42:40 hydra kernel: atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on
> isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access
> hardware directly."

If you have an old Xorg or run XFree86 this may well be a real report.
Old X tries to bang the controller directly for some things. It also
turns up in some normal situations unfortunately and is very confusing
for end users. Really this printk should die ASAP.