From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265590AbUBBDVY (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 22:21:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265592AbUBBDVX (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 22:21:23 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:5050 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265590AbUBBDVW (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2004 22:21:22 -0500 Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 19:16:12 -0800 From: Greg KH To: "J.A. Magallon" Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: hal daemon and ide-floppy Message-ID: <20040202031612.GA20455@kroah.com> References: <20040126215036.GA6906@kroah.com> <20040201225224.GA4001@werewolf.able.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040201225224.GA4001@werewolf.able.es> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:52:24PM +0100, J.A. Magallon wrote: > Hi all... > > It looks like haldaemon is polling my zip to see inserted disks > (it is the only hadware I have that uses ide-floppy). > I get a message like this > > Feb 1 23:50:15 werewolf kernel: ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc = 0, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 > Feb 1 23:50:15 werewolf kernel: ide-floppy: hdd: I/O error, pc = 1b, key = 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0 > Feb 1 23:50:15 werewolf kernel: hdd: No disk in drive > > every 2 seconds, both in messages and syslog. > They can grow very large after some uptime ;) Why not ask the hal authors about why they are doing this? > What is the policy here ? Kill the message in ide-floppy.c ? > I suppose there can be some other similat messages around there... You might want to rate-limit those kernel messages though, that's not very nice to be able to do from userspace. thanks, greg k-h