Chunbo Luo wrote:
>> And this message has nothing to do with SCSI.  It's printed by libata
>> proper for several drivers which don't support ATAPI.  Did the patch
>> really kill the warning messages?  Can you please post full boot log
>> from 2.6.26 w/o the patch?
> 
> If the drivers don't support ATAPI, the hotplug task cannot find linked device,
> and it will start the hotplug task again. Which will print messages continously 
> like this.
> 
> ----------
> ata3.00: WARNING: ATAPI is not supported with this driver, device ignored.
> ata3.00: WARNING: ATAPI is not supported with this driver, device ignored.
> ata3.00: WARNING: ATAPI is not supported with this driver, device ignored.
> ata3.00: WARNING: ATAPI is not supported with this driver, device ignored.
> ...
> ------------
> 
> We should find a way to avoid this kind of noisy warning messages.
> 
> This patch cannot kill the warning messages, but it can avoid the
> duplicate warning messages.

Hmmm... yeah, indeed.  That check is located at rather strange place.
Can you please test the attached patch?

Thanks.

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tejun