On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 13:56:13 +0000, "Alan J. Wylie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I was presented with a continous stream of error messages:
> atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio Some program might be trying
> to access hardware directly.
> These seem to be as a result of the keyboard LEDs being flashed.
> They cause the real error message:
> Cannot open root device
> and the preceding kernel messages which show a lack of detection of
> the SATA hard drive to be rapidly scrolled off screen.
> The atkbd message should at the very least be rate limited.
Here is an ugly hack that limits the above error message.
--- linux/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c.orig 2006-12-05 20:34:50.000000000
+0000
+++ linux/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c 2006-12-03 13:43:13.000000000
+0000
@@ -412,9 +412,16 @@
goto out;
case ATKBD_RET_ACK:
case ATKBD_RET_NAK:
- printk(KERN_WARNING "atkbd.c: Spurious %s on %s. "
- "Some program might be trying access hardware
directly.\n",
- data == ATKBD_RET_ACK ? "ACK" : "NAK",
serio->phys);
+ {
+ static int warned = 0;
+
+ if (!warned) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "atkbd.c: Spurious
%s on %s. "
+ "Some program might be trying
access hardware directly.\n",
+ data == ATKBD_RET_ACK ? "ACK" :
"NAK", serio->phys);
+ warned = 1;
+ }
+ }
goto out;
case ATKBD_RET_HANGEUL:
case ATKBD_RET_HANJA:
Signed-off-by: Alan J. Wylie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--
Alan J. Wylie http://www.wylie.me.uk/
"Perfection [in design] is achieved not when there is nothing left to add,
but rather when there is nothing left to take away."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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