On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Stefan Richter wrote: > Well right --- hald polls the card reader for media change too. > > I now noticed that the two lines > sd *:0:0:0: rpm_resume flags 0x4 > sd *:0:0:0: rpm_resume returns 1 > are logged once for each sd device (i.e. those with fixed media too) > at the startup of hald. Is this expected? I don't know anything about the details of hal. But I do know that you can tell hal not to poll certain devices. Look at "man hal-disable-polling". > Note, I have not seen anything of the sort on another PC which runs > 2.3.37-rc6 with the same PM debug options. The differences are that > the other PC is an Intel 945GM based one with x86-32 kernel and 32bit > Gentoo userland, whereas the PC with log spam is an AMD RS780 based one > with x86-64 kernel and 64bit Gentoo userland. Both got hal 0.5.14-r2. Maybe CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is set differently, or userspace enables dynamic debugging of different subsystems. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html