On Dec 18 Alan Stern wrote: > 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". I wouldn't use hal at all if it weren't for some weak userland programs that require it. > > 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. Simpler: I am now noticing that CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME is off on the silent PC. It is only on on the PC which produces the log spam. Good. Then the solution for me is simply to disable CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME, which I had switched on for no apparent reason. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- ==-- =--=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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
