On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Mark Stosberg wrote: > With the release of Karmic upon us, perhaps there a short term fix that > can be made, like making the warning level less severe. If the userspace in Ubuntu is triggering the warning, and you don't have enough time to fix the issue properly (i.e. remove any code that attempts to mess with hotkey_enable), the Ubuntu kernel team will have to remove the WARN from the driver code, yes. However, I recommend trying to fix the real bug, first. There are absolutely no known-valid reasons for any program to access the hotkey_enable attribute. Please ask someone who can reproduce the warning to check for debug output from thinkpad-acpi, it will log to the kernel log the PID of the process trying to access the deprecated attributes. The user should check the PID and use the ps command to find out what process corresponts to that PID: Run this in a shell window: tail -f /var/log/kern.log | grep "thinkpad_acpi" then run whatever application causes the warnings to happen, or if they are common, just wait for one to happen. Thinkpad-acpi will log the PID of the offending processes using a phrase like "access by process with PID...". I would be interested in the full log output by thinkpad-acpi showing the problem. In fact, I find it surprising that your automated bug report tool doesn't attach to the bug report the last 100 lines of the kernel log or somesuch... Anyway, now that the user knows the PID of the process attempting to access the deprecated attributes, he should immediately use the "ps PID", where PID is the numerical value of the PID logged by thinkpad-acpi, to find out the name and parameters of the process who accessed the deprecated attribute. Maybe the user should also use "pstree -p" to help locate the parent of the process if the PID resultued in something unhelpful (e.g. bash). That could give us a clue about exactly why that attribute is being accessed, especially if it is happening when someone is trying to test their ALSA setup... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
